One must learn to be grateful for one's own findings. — Eugene Delacroix Be grateful Copy Share Image
A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator. — Eugene Delacroix Art Copy Share Image
One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it. — Eugene Delacroix Bits Copy Share Image
The secret of not having worries, for me at least, is to have ideas. — Eugene Delacroix Anxiety Copy Share Image
Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude. — Eugene Delacroix Beauty Copy Share Image
The only ones who can really benefit by consulting the model are those who can produce their effect without a model. — Eugene Delacroix Benefits Copy Share Image
Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume. — Eugene Delacroix Absence Copy Share Image
Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut. — Eugene Delacroix Criticism Copy Share Image
Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation. — Eugene Delacroix Doe Copy Share Image
As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities... No, there is the root of the evil. There is… — Eugene Delacroix Ability Copy Share Image
If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to… — Eugene Delacroix Able Copy Share Image
The outcome of my days is always the same; an infinite desire for what one never gets; a void one cannot fill;… — Eugene Delacroix Battle Copy Share Image
Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose… — Eugene Delacroix Artist 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 Art 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 Adversity Copy Share Image
I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my… — Eugene Delacroix Charming 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 Artist 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 Acquire Copy Share Image
Can any man say with certainty that he was happy at a particular moment of time which he remembers as being delightful?… — Eugene Delacroix Buried Copy Share Image
I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget… — Eugene Delacroix Forget Copy Share Image
Commonplace people have an answer for everything and nothing ever surprises them. They try to look as though they knew what you… — Eugene Delacroix Answers 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… — Eugene Delacroix Break Copy Share Image
One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy. — Eugene Delacroix Art Copy Share Image
Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men. — Eugene Delacroix Appreciation Copy Share Image
Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture. — Eugene Delacroix Constructs Copy Share Image
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life. — Eugene Delacroix Good way Copy Share Image
Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself. — Eugene Delacroix Art Copy Share Image
The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer. — Eugene Delacroix Being alone Copy Share Image
It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time. — Eugene Delacroix Inspirational Copy Share Image
God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked. — Eugene Delacroix Admire Copy Share Image
Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself. — Eugene Delacroix Cultivate Copy Share Image
Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done. — Eugene Delacroix Confidence Copy Share Image
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. — Eugene Delacroix Achieves Copy Share Image
If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us. — Eugene Delacroix Life Copy Share Image
The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly. — Eugene Delacroix Eye Copy Share Image
