If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her. — Eugene Delacroix Artist Copy Share Image
Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation. — Eugene Delacroix 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
The only ones who can really benefit by consulting the model are those who can produce their effect without a model. — Eugene Delacroix 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
A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator. — Eugene Delacroix Art 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
One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it. — Eugene Delacroix 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
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
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
If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to… — Eugene Delacroix 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
Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit,… — Eugene Delacroix 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
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
In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What… — Eugene Delacroix 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 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 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 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 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
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
Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself. — Eugene Delacroix 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 Copy Share Image
One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy. — 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
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life. — Eugene Delacroix 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
A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product. — 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
The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
