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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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Draftsperson
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Painter
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Charenton-Républicain
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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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A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.
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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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I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget that I am writing for myself alone. Thus I shall always tell the truth, I hope, and thus I shall improve myself. These pages will reproach me for my changes of mind.
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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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What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.
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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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Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.
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To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.
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The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.
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Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.
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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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A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.
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Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.
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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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Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.
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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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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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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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