Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men. — 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 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 Copy Share Image
What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand. — Eugene Delacroix 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
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
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
One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it. — Eugene Delacroix 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 Copy Share Image
Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting. — 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
I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more… — 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
