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
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.
men pieces treasure
Can any man say with certainty that he was happy at a particular moment of time which he remembers as being delightful? Remembering it certainly makes him happy, because he realizes how happy he could have been, but at the actual moment when the alleged happiness was occurring, did he really feel happy? He was like a man owning a piece of ground in which, unknown to himself, a treasure lay buried.
time giving produce
We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.
writing understood
To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.
want doe genius
Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
character air knowing
Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them; when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character.
artist bridges soul
A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.
art people perfection
Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas.
inspirational hard-work artist
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
life simple loan
If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.