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A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.
Eugene Delacroix
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Eugene Delacroix
Age: 65 †
Born: 1798
Born: April 26
Died: 1863
Died: August 13
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Charenton-Républicain
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Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas.
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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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One must learn to be grateful for one's own findings.
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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.
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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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Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.
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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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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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Do all the work you can that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
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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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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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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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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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A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.
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Commonplace people have an answer for everything and nothing ever surprises them. They try to look as though they knew what you were about to say better than you did yourself, and when it is their turn to speak, they repeat with great assurance something that they have heard other people say, as though it were their own invention.
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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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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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There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the highest point in his work: what he does is done - through and through when he paints eyes, they are lit with the fire of life.
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Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
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