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
nature children stupid
The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in itself, that has virtue, albeit the virtue there is in mere illusions. Nature gives us this life like a toy to a weak child. We want to see how it all works; we break everything. There remains in our hands, and before our eyes, stupid and opened too late, the sterile wreckage, fragments that will not again make a whole. The good is so simple.
nature unity parts-of-a-whole
Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.
life philosophy way
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
art cold exactitude
Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.
eye lasts should
The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly.
believe progress departure
I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure.
ideas yellow orange
Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.
inspirational ideas worry
The secret of not having worries, for me at least, is to have ideas.
body silent companion
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.
finishing
Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.
giving mud flesh
Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.
benefits produce consulting
The only ones who can really benefit by consulting the model are those who can produce their effect without a model.
costumes absence modern
Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.
sublime want enough
Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.