Eugene Delacroix Quotes

One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it.

If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.

The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly.

Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.

How can this world, which is so beautiful, include so much horror?

A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.

Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.

Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.

Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.

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.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

The secret of not having worries, for me at least, is to have ideas.

If one considered life as a simple loan one would perhaps be less exacting.

We work not only to produce but to give value to time.

Experience has two things to teach: The first is that we must correct a great deal the second that we must not correct too much.