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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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A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.
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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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One must learn to be grateful for one's own findings.
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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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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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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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A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.
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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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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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Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.
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The outcome of my days is always the same an infinite desire for what one never gets a void one cannot fill an utter yearning to produce in all ways, to battle as much as possible against time that drags us along, and the distractions that throw a veil over our soul.
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When a thing bores you, do not do it.
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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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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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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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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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