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Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.
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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Charenton-Républicain
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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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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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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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We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.
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One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.
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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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Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
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Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.
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What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.
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Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut.
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One must learn to be grateful for one's own findings.
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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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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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