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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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Draftsperson
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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.
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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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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.
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At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression changes completely: I see it as big, and even terrifying in its bigness.
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We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.
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As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities... No, there is the root of the evil. There is the hiding place of stupidity I must attack: vain mortal, you are limited by nothing.
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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.
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The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.
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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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The outcome of my days is always the same an infinite desire for what one never gets a void one cannot fill an utter yearning to produce in all ways, to battle as much as possible against time that drags us along, and the distractions that throw a veil over our soul.
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Do all the work you can that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
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Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.
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Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.
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What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.
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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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Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.
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Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.
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Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.
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A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.
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One must learn to be grateful for one's own findings.
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