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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.

Eugene Delacroix

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Eugene Delacroix
Age: 65 †
Born: 1798
Born: April 26
Died: 1863
Died: August 13
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A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.
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To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.
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Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.
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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing everything goes through us.
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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.
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Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.
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God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.
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Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.
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