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Painting Quotes by Eugene Delacroix
- Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.
- The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.
- What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.
- One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it.
- All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports,…
- Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under…
- Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them... It is at such…
- One never paints violently enough.
- Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.
- I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext,…
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