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What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.
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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Charenton-Républicain
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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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One must learn to be grateful for one's own findings.
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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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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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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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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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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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Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.
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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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To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.
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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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Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.
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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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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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A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.
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