Eugene Delacroix Quotes
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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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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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The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.
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Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under the light.
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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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Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.
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One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it.
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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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The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly.
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One must learn to be grateful for one's own findings.
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The secret of not having worries, for me at least, is to have ideas.
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What I have done cannot be taken from me.
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What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.
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To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.
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Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.
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Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.
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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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Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.
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How can this world, which is so beautiful, include so much horror?
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The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.