Art Quote by Eugene Delacroix Download Open image “The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.” — Eugene Delacroix ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Eye Feast Feast Eyes Firsts Painting Painting Feast Virtue Virtue Painting
The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes. — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
“ALIF: Painting brings to life what the mind sees, as a feast for the eyes. LAM: What the eye sees in the world enters… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
One has to seek Beauty and Truth, Sir! As I always say to my pupils, you have to work to the finish. There's only… — William-Adolphe Bouguereau Copy Share Image
Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye. — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly. — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
“SOME PAINTINGS become famous because, being durable, they are viewed by successive generations, in each of which are likely to be found a few… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his soul, so that it too may be capable of… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
“Men of genius are made not by new ideas, but by an idea which possesses them, namely, that what has been said has not… — 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 I tremble… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the most flagrant… — 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 is good… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
How can this world, which is so beautiful, include so much horror? — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
