Delacroix Quotes

We work not only to produce, but to give value to time. — Eugene Delacroix

You need to remember what it is that someone so desperately wanted you to forget. - Janice Delacroix — Tarryn Fisher

Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh. — Eugene Delacroix

It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time. — Eugene Delacroix

Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume. — Eugene Delacroix

Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible. — Charles Baudelaire

God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked. — Eugene Delacroix

Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut. — Eugene Delacroix

The only skill that cannot be perfected is perfection itself. — Daphne Delacroix

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can. — Eugene Delacroix

Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm ... he really paints men. — Eugene Delacroix

[Photography is] in some ways false just because it is so exact. — Eugene Delacroix

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
— Eugene Delacroix

To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything. — Eugene Delacroix

The only ones who can really benefit by consulting the model are those who can produce their effect without a model. — Eugene Delacroix

Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting. — Eugene Delacroix

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself. — Eugene Delacroix

The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings. — Eugene Delacroix

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself. — Eugene Delacroix

Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done. — Eugene Delacroix

Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude. — Eugene Delacroix

The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer. — Eugene Delacroix

Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole. — Eugene Delacroix

How can this world, which is so beautiful, include so much horror? — Eugene Delacroix

When a thing bores you, do not do it. — Eugene Delacroix

The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. — Eugene Delacroix

What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions. — Eugene Delacroix

One must learn to be grateful for one's own findings. — Eugene Delacroix

A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product. — Eugene Delacroix

Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know. — Eugene Delacroix

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