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
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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.
nature unity parts-of-a-whole
Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.
eye lasts should
The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly.
nature children stupid
The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in itself, that has virtue, albeit the virtue there is in mere illusions. Nature gives us this life like a toy to a weak child. We want to see how it all works; we break everything. There remains in our hands, and before our eyes, stupid and opened too late, the sterile wreckage, fragments that will not again make a whole. The good is so simple.
two too-much firsts
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.
mistake inspiration school
Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the most flagrant blunders. Entire schools have been founded on misinterpretations of certain aspects of the masters. Lamentable mistakes have resulted from the thoughtless enthusiasm with which men have sought inspiration from the worst qualities of remarkable artists because they are unable to reproduce the sublime elements in their work.
appreciation father men
Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.
humility long simplicity
A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.
photography men genius
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.
pride men thinking
There is no merit in being truthful when one is truthful by nature, or rather when one can be nothing else; it is a gift, like poetry or music. But it needs courage to be truthful after carefully considering the matter, unless a kind of pride is involved; for example, the man who says to himself, "I am ugly," and then says, "I am ugly" to his friends, lest they should think themselves the first to make the discovery.
taken done immortality
What I have done cannot be taken from me.
beautiful world horror
How can this world, which is so beautiful, include so much horror?
color law drawing
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.
illumination painting produce
Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.