Eugene Delacroix

[Photography is] in some ways false just because it is so exact.

— Eugene Delacroix

What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.

— Eugene Delacroix

To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.

— Eugene Delacroix

A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.

— Eugene Delacroix

The source of genius is imagination alone.

— Eugene Delacroix

How can this world, which is so beautiful, include so much horror?

— Eugene Delacroix

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

— Eugene Delacroix

If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.

— Eugene Delacroix

The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.

— Eugene Delacroix

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

— Eugene Delacroix

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

— Eugene Delacroix

One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.

— Eugene Delacroix

Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.

— Eugene Delacroix

Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.

— Eugene Delacroix

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.

— Eugene Delacroix

Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done.

— Eugene Delacroix

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 believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress,…

— Eugene Delacroix

It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks...…

— Eugene Delacroix

The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror…

— Eugene Delacroix

Delsarte tells me that Mozart stole outrageously from Galuppi, in the same way, I suppose, that Molière stole from anybody anywhere, if…

— Eugene Delacroix

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has…

— Eugene Delacroix

At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression…

— Eugene Delacroix

“Men of genius are made not by new ideas, but by an idea which possesses them, namely, that what has been said…

— Eugene Delacroix

The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without…

— Eugene Delacroix

In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What…

— Eugene Delacroix

Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the…

— Eugene Delacroix

Can any man say with certainty that he was happy at a particular moment of time which he remembers as being delightful?…

— Eugene Delacroix

I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget…

— Eugene Delacroix

Commonplace people have an answer for everything and nothing ever surprises them. They try to look as though they knew what you…

— Eugene Delacroix

The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that…

— Eugene Delacroix

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

When a thing bores you, do not do it.

— Eugene Delacroix

We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.

— Eugene Delacroix

One must learn to be grateful for one's own findings.

— Eugene Delacroix

Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.

— Eugene Delacroix

One never paints violently enough.

— Eugene Delacroix

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

— Eugene Delacroix

Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.

— Eugene Delacroix

What I have done cannot be taken from me.

— Eugene Delacroix