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
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. — Eugene Delacroix Art Copy Share Image
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life. — Eugene Delacroix Life Copy Share Image
Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself. — Eugene Delacroix Language 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
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 Enough 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
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
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
Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its… — Eugene Delacroix Accounts 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
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
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
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
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
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
One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it. — Eugene Delacroix Bits Copy Share Image
One must learn to be grateful for one's own findings. — Eugene Delacroix Be grateful 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 live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is… — Eugene Delacroix Body Copy Share Image
One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy. — Eugene Delacroix Art Copy Share Image
