Eugene Delacroix Quotes
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The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.
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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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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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A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.
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Every time I await a model, even when I am most pressed to time, I am overjoyed when the time comes and I tremble when I hear the key turn in the door.
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A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.
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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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Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.
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I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my solitude, or in the midst of the distractions that I pursue, a charming memory that does not in the least resemble the troubled pleasure of lovers.
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I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.
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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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Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution.
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If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment of their contemporaries, how different their reputations would be from what posterity has made them!
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Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done.
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When a thing bores you, do not do it.
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Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.
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Real beauty in the arts is eternal and would be accepted at all periods; but it wears the dress of its century: something of that dress clings to it, and woe to the works which appear in periods when the general taste is corrupted.
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Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude.
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Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas.
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Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.
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The only ones who can really benefit by consulting the model are those who can produce their effect without a model.
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Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them; when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character.
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The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for that, you must acquire facility, furnish one's memory to the point of infinitude, and make numerous drawings after the old masters.
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Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.