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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.
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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Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.
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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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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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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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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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Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Cold exactitude is not art ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.
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The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.
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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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