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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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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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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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In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.
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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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When a thing bores you, do not do it.
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Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.
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It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.
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Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
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What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.
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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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One must learn to be grateful for one's own findings.
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The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.
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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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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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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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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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Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.
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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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We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.
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