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.
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.
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.
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.
humility long simplicity
A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.
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.