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
artist views interesting
The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge of his picture is just as interesting as the middle, one can only guess at the existence of a whole, and the view presented seems chosen by chance.
artist enemy should
One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.
art boredom perfection
The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.
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.
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.
art cold exactitude
Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.
art mean eye
In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What is a black-and-white drawing but a convention to which the beholder has become so accustomed that with his mind's eye he sees a complete equivalent in the translation from nature?
notebook artist essence
It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks... where written comments and personal notes provide an intimate insight into the magical mind of a working artist.
artist personality vagueness
In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.
art perfection artist
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.
art eye firsts
The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.
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.
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.