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Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.
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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.
Eugene Delacroix
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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.
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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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Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.
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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.
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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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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.
Eugene Delacroix
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Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.
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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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Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.
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The source of genius is imagination alone.
Eugene Delacroix -
A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.
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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.
Eugene Delacroix
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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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We should not allow ourselves to believe that writers like Poe have more imagination than those who are content with describing things as they really are. It is surely easier to invent striking situations in this way than to tread the beaten track which intelligent minds have followed throughout the centuries.
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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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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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Perfect beauty implies perfect simplicity, a quality that at first sight does not arouse the emotions which we feel before gigantic works, objects whose very disproportion constitutes an element of beauty.
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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.
Eugene Delacroix
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To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.
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Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
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Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.
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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.
Eugene Delacroix