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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.
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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Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.
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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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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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The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge of his picture is just as interesting as the middle, one can only guess at the existence of a whole, and the view presented seems chosen by chance.
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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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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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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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What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.
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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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Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.
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Commonplace people have an answer for everything and nothing ever surprises them. They try to look as though they knew what you were about to say better than you did yourself, and when it is their turn to speak, they repeat with great assurance something that they have heard other people say, as though it were their own invention.
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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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Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
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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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Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.
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The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.
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