The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself. — Eugene Delacroix 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 Copy Share Image
Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them… — Eugene Delacroix 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
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
The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks...… — Eugene Delacroix 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 has not… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Every time I await a model, even when I am most pressed to time, I am overjoyed when the time comes and I tremble… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return… — 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 most flagrant… — 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 is good… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
How can this world, which is so beautiful, include so much horror? — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
