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Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
Eugene Delacroix
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Eugene Delacroix
Age: 65 †
Born: 1798
Born: April 26
Died: 1863
Died: August 13
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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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All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.
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One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.
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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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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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A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.
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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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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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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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One must learn to be grateful for one's own findings.
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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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Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.
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Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.
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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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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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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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When a thing bores you, do not do it.
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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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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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