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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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Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut.
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If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.
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I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure.
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It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.
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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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Cold exactitude is not art ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.
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When a thing bores you, do not do it.
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What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.
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Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.
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The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.
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