Eugène Victor Eugène Delacroix Quotes

Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the most flagrant blunders. Entire schools have been founded on...

Eugène Victor Eugène Delacroix

The Journal of Eugene Delacroix : 1822-1824 and 1847-1863 - A Selection - 1980, edited by Hubert Wellington, translated by Lucy Norton - 1860

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They say that truth is naked. I cannot admit this for any but abstract truths; in the arts, all truths are produced by methods which show the hand of the artist.

Eugène Victor Eugène Delacroix

The Journal of Eugene Delacroix : 1822-1824 and 1847-1863 - A Selection - 1980, edited by Hubert Wellington, translated by Lucy Norton - 1859

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The so-called conscientiousness of the great majority of painters is nothing but perfection laboriously applied to the art of being boring.

Eugène Victor Eugène Delacroix

The Journal of Eugene Delacroix : 1822-1824 and 1847-1863 - A Selection - 1980, edited by Hubert Wellington, translated by Lucy Norton - 1857

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Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.

Eugène Victor Eugène Delacroix

The Journal of Eugene Delacroix : 1822-1824 and 1847-1863 - A Selection - 1980, edited by Hubert Wellington, translated by Lucy Norton - 1857

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

Eugène Victor Eugène Delacroix

The Journal of Eugene Delacroix : 1822-1824 and 1847-1863 - A Selection - 1980, edited by Hubert Wellington, translated by Lucy Norton - 1857

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Painting, in the beginning, was a trade like any other. Some men became picture-makers as others became glaziers or carpenters. Painters painted shields, saddles and banners. The primitive painter...

Eugène Victor Eugène Delacroix

The Journal of Eugene Delacroix : 1822-1824 and 1847-1863 - A Selection - 1980, edited by Hubert Wellington, translated by Lucy Norton - 1857

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Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.

Eugène Victor Eugène Delacroix

The Journal of Eugene Delacroix : 1822-1824 and 1847-1863 - A Selection - 1980, edited by Hubert Wellington, translated by Lucy Norton - 1857

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For his contemporaries, Racine was a romantic, but for every age he is classical, that is to say, he is faultless.

Eugène Victor Eugène Delacroix

The Journal of Eugene Delacroix : 1822-1824 and 1847-1863 - A Selection - 1980, edited by Hubert Wellington, translated by Lucy Norton - 1857

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In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What is a black-and-white drawing but a convention to which the beholder has...

Eugène Victor Eugène Delacroix

The Journal of Eugene Delacroix : 1822-1824 and 1847-1863 - A Selection - 1980, edited by Hubert Wellington, translated by Lucy Norton - 1857

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He is the least mannered and consequently the most varied of artists. Mannered talents have but one bias, one usage only. They are more apt to follow the impulse of the hand than to control it. Those...

Eugène Victor Eugène Delacroix

The Journal of Eugene Delacroix : 1822-1824 and 1847-1863 - A Selection - 1980, edited by Hubert Wellington, translated by Lucy Norton - 1857

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