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

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long. —
Eugene Delacroix

The source of genius is imagination alone. —
Eugene Delacroix

If
Delacroix discovered painting when he had neither teeth nor health, I can discover it when I have neither teeth nor the mind.
[Vincent Van Gogh] —
Irving Stone

Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much. —
Eugene Delacroix

Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses. —
Eugene Delacroix

In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent. —
Eugene Delacroix

The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly. —
Eugene Delacroix

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it. —
Eugene Delacroix

The secret of not having worries, for me at least, is to have ideas. —
Eugene Delacroix

No man of honor avoided what needed to be done, simply because it might not proceed in his favor. —
Claire Delacroix

Everyone who was in the
Delacroix house on Christmas morning got a stocking. That was one of the rules. —
Eileen Wilks

One never paints violently enough. —
Eugene Delacroix

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

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

What I have done cannot be taken from me. —
Eugene Delacroix

A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings. —
Eugene Delacroix

When all is said and done scholars can do no more than find in nature what is already there. —
Eugene Delacroix

What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand. —
Eugene Delacroix

Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion. —
Eugene Delacroix

Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation. —
Eugene Delacroix

A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator. —
Eugene Delacroix

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us. —
Eugene Delacroix

A taste for simplicity cannot last for long. —
Eugene Delacroix

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. —
Eugene Delacroix

In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like
Delacroix is less well known. —
Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language. —
Henri Delacroix

What drives men of genius is their obsession with the idea that what has already been done is not good enough. —
Eugene Delacroix

Men of genius are made not by new ideas, but by an idea which possesses them, namely, that what has been said has not yet been sufficiently said. —
Eugene Delacroix

One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it. —
Eugene Delacroix

Draftsmen may be made, but colorists are born. —
Eugene Delacroix

Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born. —
Eugene Delacroix

Nothing and no one is perfect. It just takes a good eye to find those hidden imperfections. —
Daphne Delacroix