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Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.
Eugene Delacroix
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Eugene Delacroix
Age: 65 †
Born: 1798
Born: April 26
Died: 1863
Died: August 13
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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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Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
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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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The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.
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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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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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As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities... No, there is the root of the evil. There is the hiding place of stupidity I must attack: vain mortal, you are limited by nothing.
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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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A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.
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We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.
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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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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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Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.
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What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.
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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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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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Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.
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A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.
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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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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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