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One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.
Eugene Delacroix
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Eugene Delacroix
Age: 65 †
Born: 1798
Born: April 26
Died: 1863
Died: August 13
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Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.
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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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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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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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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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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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Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.
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A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.
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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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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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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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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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Cold exactitude is not art ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.
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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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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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To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.
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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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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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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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