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Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.
Eugene Delacroix
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Eugene Delacroix
Age: 65 †
Born: 1798
Born: April 26
Died: 1863
Died: August 13
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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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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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Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.
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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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Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.
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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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When a thing bores you, do not do it.
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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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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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Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.
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The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.
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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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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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What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.
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Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.
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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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