All Eugene Delacroix Quotes
- Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born. Born
- When a thing bores you, do not do it. Boredom
- A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings. All
- One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it. Bit
- How can this world, which is so beautiful, include so much horror? Beautiful
- Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what… Accompaniment
- I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of… Body
- I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget that I am… Alone
- All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports,… All
- Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each… Adapted
- What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions. Beauty
- The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. Applied
- The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color… Becomes
- Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under… Account
- Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot… Color
- Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that,… Applied
- Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut. Along
- Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them... It is at such… Decision
- One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy. Artist
- Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done. All
- As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities... No, there is the root of the evil. There is the hiding place… Abilities
- A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product. Expressive
- Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses. Chooses
- Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh. Flesh
- One must learn to be grateful for one's own findings. Findings