Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion. — Eugene Delacroix Beauty Copy Share Image
Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
“When all is said and done scholars can do no more than find in nature what is already there.” — Eugène Delacroix Nature Copy Share Image
Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them... It… — Eugene Delacroix Adversity Copy Share Image
All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of… — Eugene Delacroix Artist Copy Share Image
In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations… — Eugene Delacroix Art Copy Share Image
As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities... No, there is the root of the evil. There is… — Eugene Delacroix Ability Copy Share Image
Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit,… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Perfect beauty implies perfect simplicity, a quality that at first sight does not arouse the emotions which we feel before gigantic works,… — Eugene Delacroix Beauty Copy Share Image
If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
The outcome of my days is always the same; an infinite desire for what one never gets; a void one cannot fill;… — Eugene Delacroix Battle Copy Share Image
Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose… — Eugene Delacroix Artist Copy Share Image
The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge… — Eugene Delacroix Art Copy Share Image
Real beauty in the arts is eternal and would be accepted at all periods; but it wears the dress of its century:… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you... The greatest… — Eugene Delacroix Happiness Copy Share Image
Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity,… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according… — Eugene Delacroix Actors Copy Share Image
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