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We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.
— Eugene Delacroix
Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.
— Eugene Delacroix
Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.
— Eugene Delacroix
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
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
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[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
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 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
A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.
— Eugene Delacroix
Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.
— Eugene 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
The source of genius is imagination alone.
— Eugene Delacroix
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
What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.
— Eugene Delacroix
When all is said and done scholars can do no more than find in nature what is already there.
— 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
A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.
— Eugene Delacroix
Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
— Eugene Delacroix
What I have done cannot be taken from me.
— Eugene Delacroix
The secret of not having worries, for me at least, is to have ideas.
— Eugene Delacroix
One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.
— Eugene Delacroix
One never paints violently enough.
— Eugene Delacroix