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
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
There is no merit in being truthful when one is truthful by nature, or rather when one can be nothing else; it… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture. — 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 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
