Eugene Delacroix Quotes

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• Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.
• Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.
• If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.
• The source of genius is imagination alone.
• We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.
• The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.
• The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.
• Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too…
• The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in…
• Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.
• Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
• Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.
• What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.
• Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
• The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly.
• I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to…
• If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the…
• Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you…
• The outcome of my days is always the same; an infinite desire for what one never gets; a void one cannot fill; an utter yearning…
• If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

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