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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.

Eugene Delacroix

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Eugene Delacroix
Age: 65 †
Born: 1798
Born: April 26
Died: 1863
Died: August 13
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We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.
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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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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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What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.
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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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Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.
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Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.
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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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Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.
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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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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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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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Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.
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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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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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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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One must learn to be grateful for one's own findings.
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A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.
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Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
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Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.
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