Eugene Delacroix
Eugene Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroixwas a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school...
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth26 April 1798
ideas soul solitude
Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude.
happiness men self
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.
imagination genius source
The source of genius is imagination alone.
keys doors turns
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.
beautiful soul language
Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.
being-alone solitude stronger
The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.
soul desire battle
The outcome of my days is always the same; an infinite desire for what one never gets; a void one cannot fill; an utter yearning to produce in all ways, to battle as much as possible against time that drags us along, and the distractions that throw a veil over our soul.
spirit language speak
It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.
finishing
Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.
artist personality vagueness
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.
memories solitude mistress
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.
eye perspective lines
Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity, bringing forward those parts of an object which are always most distant from the eye - namely its outlines.
costumes absence modern
Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.
sublime want enough
Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.