Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting. — Eugene Delacroix Artist Copy Share Image
A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings. — Eugene Delacroix Blessing Copy Share Image
The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes. — Eugene Delacroix Art 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 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
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
“What drives men of genius is their obsession with the idea that what has already been done is not good enough.” — Eugène Delacroix Genius 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 so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. — Eugene Delacroix Art Copy Share Image
The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the… — Eugene Delacroix Artist Copy Share Image
Always, at the back of your soul, there is something that says to you, 'Mortal, drawn from eternal life for a short… — Eugene Delacroix Death 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 Copy Share Image
Every time I await a model, even when I am most pressed to time, I am overjoyed when the time comes and… — Eugene Delacroix 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
I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more… — Eugene Delacroix Artist 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 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
They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to… — Eugene Delacroix 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 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 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
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
Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses. — Eugene Delacroix 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
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
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
One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it. — Eugene Delacroix 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
A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator. — Eugene Delacroix Art 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 secret of not having worries, for me at least, is to have ideas. — Eugene Delacroix Anxiety 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
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