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
ideas soul solitude
Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude.
bridges mind painting
I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and the mind of the spectator.
may born made
Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.
black-and-white color talking
All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.
feelings finishing suggestions
A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.
draws dictionary
Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
soul desire battle
The outcome of my days is always the same; an infinite desire for what one never gets; a void one cannot fill; an utter yearning to produce in all ways, to battle as much as possible against time that drags us along, and the distractions that throw a veil over our soul.
gratitude grateful be-grateful
One must learn to be grateful for one's own findings.
people trying looks
Commonplace people have an answer for everything and nothing ever surprises them. They try to look as though they knew what you were about to say better than you did yourself, and when it is their turn to speak, they repeat with great assurance something that they have heard other people say, as though it were their own invention.
color mirrors brilliant
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.
fear roots evil
As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities... No, there is the root of the evil. There is the hiding place of stupidity I must attack: vain mortal, you are limited by nothing...
art moving ideas
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
power painting enough
One never paints violently enough.
doe observation seeing
Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.