If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her. — Eugene Delacroix Artist Copy Share Image
If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us. — Eugene Delacroix Life Copy Share Image
The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. — Eugene Delacroix Art Copy Share Image
The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
“What drives men of genius is their obsession with the idea that what has already been done is not good enough.” — Eugène Delacroix Genius Copy Share Image
A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done. — Eugene Delacroix Confidence Copy Share Image
I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more… — Eugene Delacroix Artist Copy Share Image
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is… — Eugene Delacroix Body Copy Share Image
At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Always, at the back of your soul, there is something that says to you, 'Mortal, drawn from eternal life for a short… — Eugene Delacroix Death Copy Share Image
“Men of genius are made not by new ideas, but by an idea which possesses them, namely, that what has been said… — Eugene Delacroix Genius Copy Share Image
There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the… — Eugene Delacroix Artist Copy Share Image
Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Commonplace people have an answer for everything and nothing ever surprises them. They try to look as though they knew what you… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Can any man say with certainty that he was happy at a particular moment of time which he remembers as being delightful?… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the… — Eugene Delacroix Artist Copy Share Image
“The Natural History Museum is open to the public on Tuesdays and Fridays. Elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus; extraordinary animals! Rubens rendered them marvelously.… — Eugene Delacroix Animals Copy Share Image
How can this world, which is so beautiful, include so much horror? — Eugene Delacroix Beautiful Copy Share Image
The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes. — Eugene Delacroix Art Copy Share Image
A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings. — Eugene Delacroix Blessing Copy Share Image
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