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
art perfection artist
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.
keys doors turns
Every time I await a model, even when I am most pressed to time, I am overjoyed when the time comes and I tremble when I hear the key turn in the door.
imagination genius source
The source of genius is imagination alone.
men hands perfect
They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other.
real creative painting
What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.
happiness men self
You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to enjoy, there remains that chief of pleasures, the feeling of being pleased with oneself. A man gets an immense amount of satisfaction from the knowledge of having done good work and of having made the best use of his day, and when I am in this state I find that I thoroughly enjoy my rest and even the mildest forms of recreation.
light enemy painting
Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under the light.
time thinking soul
Always, at the back of your soul, there is something that says to you, 'Mortal, drawn from eternal life for a short time, think how precious these moments are.
criticism ruts said
Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut.
being-alone solitude stronger
The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.
beautiful soul language
Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.
fall men jumping
If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.
country patriotic paint
If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.
art eye firsts
The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.