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Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.
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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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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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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A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.
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When a thing bores you, do not do it.
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The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.
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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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Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.
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A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.
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Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.
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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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A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.
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To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.
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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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Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.
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We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.
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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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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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One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.
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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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Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.
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