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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.

Eugene Delacroix

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Eugene Delacroix
Age: 65 †
Born: 1798
Born: April 26
Died: 1863
Died: August 13
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Charenton-Républicain
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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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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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Do all the work you can that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
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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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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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When a thing bores you, do not do it.
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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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Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.
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