Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with… — Eugene Delacroix I can Copy Share Image
At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression… — Eugene Delacroix Bigs 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
Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting. — Eugene Delacroix Illumination Copy Share Image
The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. — Eugene Delacroix Art 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
If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her. — Eugene Delacroix Country Copy Share Image
I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more… — Eugene Delacroix Bridges 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
“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
“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
Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude. — Eugene Delacroix Beauty Copy Share Image
It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks...… — Eugene Delacroix Art Copy Share Image
Delsarte tells me that Mozart stole outrageously from Galuppi, in the same way, I suppose, that Molière stole from anybody anywhere, if… — Eugene Delacroix Found Copy Share Image
A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product. — Eugene Delacroix Expressive 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
