Eugene Delacroix
Eugene Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroixwas a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school...
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth26 April 1798
Eugene Delacroix quotes about
race wings soul
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict.
beauty looks taste
Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution.
beauty sovereign conventions
What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.
art boredom perfection
The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.
giving experience done
Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done.
beautiful world horror
How can this world, which is so beautiful, include so much horror?
heart decision steel
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 moments that one fully realizes one's own weaknesses.
marriage blessing wife
A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.
bores-you boredom bores
When a thing bores you, do not do it.
art real dresses
Real beauty in the arts is eternal and would be accepted at all periods; but it wears the dress of its century: something of that dress clings to it, and woe to the works which appear in periods when the general taste is corrupted.
humility long simplicity
A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.
appreciation father men
Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.
art imagination genius
The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.
two too-much firsts
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.