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.
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.
artist bridges soul
A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.
inspirational hard-work artist
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
forty poet twenty
To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet
cannot endure simplicity taste
A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.
genius men
What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough.
beautiful religion wicked
God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.
illumination painting produce
Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.
memories ideas drawing
The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for that, you must acquire facility, furnish one's memory to the point of infinitude, and make numerous drawings after the old masters.
matter way said
Delsarte tells me that Mozart stole outrageously from Galuppi, in the same way, I suppose, that Molière stole from anybody anywhere, if he found something work taking. I said that what was Mozart had not been stolen from Galuppi, or from anyone else for that matter.