Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting. — Eugene Delacroix Artist Copy Share Image
Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can. — Eugene Delacroix Does Copy Share Image
The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes. — Eugene Delacroix Art Copy Share Image
A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings. — Eugene Delacroix Blessing Copy Share Image
Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses. — Eugene Delacroix Finishing Copy Share Image
The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them… — Eugene Delacroix Art Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion. — Eugene Delacroix Beauty Copy Share Image
“When all is said and done scholars can do no more than find in nature what is already there.” — Eugène Delacroix Nature Copy Share Image
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. — Eugene Delacroix Body Copy Share Image
Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height… — Eugene Delacroix Genius Copy Share Image
To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet — Eugene Delacroix Poet Copy Share Image
What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand. — Eugene Delacroix Artist 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 Actors Copy Share Image
Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity,… — Eugene Delacroix Centre Copy Share Image
The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge… — Eugene Delacroix Art Copy Share Image
Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you... The greatest… — Eugene Delacroix Happiness Copy Share Image
Real beauty in the arts is eternal and would be accepted at all periods; but it wears the dress of its century:… — Eugene Delacroix Accepted Copy Share Image
Perfect beauty implies perfect simplicity, a quality that at first sight does not arouse the emotions which we feel before gigantic works,… — Eugene Delacroix Beauty Copy Share Image
Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit,… — Eugene Delacroix Adapted Copy Share Image
In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations… — Eugene Delacroix Art Copy Share Image
You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to… — Eugene Delacroix Amount Copy Share Image
Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better… — Eugene Delacroix Air Copy Share Image
We should not allow ourselves to believe that writers like Poe have more imagination than those who are content with describing things… — Eugene Delacroix Beaten Copy Share Image
They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to… — Eugene Delacroix Behinds 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 Being truthful Copy Share Image
“The Natural History Museum is open to the public on Tuesdays and Fridays. Elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus; extraordinary animals! Rubens rendered them marvelously.… — Eugene Delacroix Animals 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… — Eugene Delacroix Artist 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 Accepted Copy Share Image
[Photography is] in some ways false just because it is so exact. — Eugene Delacroix Exact Copy Share Image
To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything. — Eugene Delacroix Explain Copy Share Image
How can this world, which is so beautiful, include so much horror? — Eugene Delacroix Beautiful Copy Share Image
If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her. — Eugene Delacroix Artist Copy Share Image
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