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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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Eugene Delacroix
Age: 65 †
Born: 1798
Born: April 26
Died: 1863
Died: August 13
Artist
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Draftsperson
Drawer
Lithographer
Muralist
Painter
Pastellist
Photographer
Charenton-Républicain
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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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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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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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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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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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Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
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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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What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
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Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.
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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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A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.
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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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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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What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.
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One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.
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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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I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure.
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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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