Artist Quotes by Eugene Delacroix

The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.

— Eugene Delacroix

“Draftsmen may be made, but colorists are born.”

— Eugène Delacroix

Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.

— Eugene Delacroix

One never paints violently enough.

— Eugene Delacroix

If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.

— Eugene Delacroix

Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.

— Eugene Delacroix

A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.

— Eugene Delacroix

What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.

— Eugene Delacroix

The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.

— Eugene Delacroix

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

— Eugene Delacroix

Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.

— Eugene Delacroix

One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.

— Eugene Delacroix

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

— Eugene Delacroix

All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of…

— Eugene Delacroix

Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them... It…

— Eugene Delacroix

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

In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations…

— Eugene Delacroix

Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose…

— Eugene Delacroix

If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to…

— Eugene Delacroix

The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge…

— Eugene Delacroix

If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according…

— Eugene Delacroix

Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the…

— Eugene Delacroix

The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without…

— Eugene Delacroix

I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more…

— Eugene Delacroix

There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the…

— Eugene Delacroix

Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its…

— Eugene Delacroix

It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks...…

— Eugene Delacroix