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
illumination painting produce
Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.
looks study paint
Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you... The greatest happiness is to reveal it to others, to study oneself, to paint oneself continually in [one's] work.
real creative painting
What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.
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.
country patriotic paint
If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.
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.
power painting enough
One never paints violently enough.
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.
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.
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.
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.