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The secret of not having worries, for me at least, is to have ideas.
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What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.
Eugene Delacroix
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I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure.
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We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.
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The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.
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One must learn to be grateful for one's own findings.
Eugene Delacroix -
The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.
Eugene Delacroix -
Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.
Eugene Delacroix
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Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
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The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly.
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What I have done cannot be taken from me.
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You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to enjoy, there remains that chief of pleasures, the feeling of being pleased with oneself. A man gets an immense amount of satisfaction from the knowledge of having done good work and of having made the best use of his day, and when I am in this state I find that I thoroughly enjoy my rest and even the mildest forms of recreation.
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One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it.
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A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.
Eugene Delacroix
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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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Always, at the back of your soul, there is something that says to you, 'Mortal, drawn from eternal life for a short time, think how precious these moments are.
Eugene Delacroix -
What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.
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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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Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.
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How can this world, which is so beautiful, include so much horror?
Eugene Delacroix