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Cold exactitude is not art ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.
Eugene Delacroix
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Eugene Delacroix
Age: 65 †
Born: 1798
Born: April 26
Died: 1863
Died: August 13
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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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It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.
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Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.
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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.
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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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Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.
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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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Do all the work you can that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
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Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.
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When a thing bores you, do not do it.
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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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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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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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Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
Eugene Delacroix
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.
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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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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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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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To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.
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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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