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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
Artist
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Draftsperson
Drawer
Lithographer
Muralist
Painter
Pastellist
Photographer
Charenton-Républicain
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Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity, bringing forward those parts of an object which are always most distant from the eye - namely its outlines.
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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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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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We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.
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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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Do all the work you can that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
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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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To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.
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God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.
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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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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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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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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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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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A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.
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One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.
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One must learn to be grateful for one's own findings.
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