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
forty poet twenty
To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet
time giving produce
We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.
gratitude grateful be-grateful
One must learn to be grateful for one's own findings.
feelings finishing suggestions
A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.
draws dictionary
Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
time thinking soul
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.
being-alone solitude stronger
The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.
sublime want enough
Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.
sight perfect simplicity
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.
photography way
[Photography is] in some ways false just because it is so exact.
bores-you boredom bores
When a thing bores you, do not do it.
marriage blessing wife
A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.
race wings soul
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict.
beauty looks taste
Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution.