Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything. Eugene Delacroix More Quotes by Eugene Delacroix More Quotes From Eugene Delacroix If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us. Eugene Delacroix loansimplelife A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator. Eugene Delacroix artistsoulbridges Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them; when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character. Eugene Delacroix knowingaircharacter Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas. Eugene Delacroix perfectionpeopleart The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. Eugene Delacroix hard-workartistinspirational Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can. Eugene Delacroix geniusdoewant 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. Eugene Delacroix selfhappinessmen We work not only to produce, but to give value to time. Eugene Delacroix producetimegiving If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works. Eugene Delacroix jumpingmenfall 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. Eugene Delacroix too-muchtwofirsts One never paints violently enough. Eugene Delacroix paintingpowerenough Can any man say with certainty that he was happy at a particular moment of time which he remembers as being delightful? Remembering it certainly makes him happy, because he realizes how happy he could have been, but at the actual moment when the alleged happiness was occurring, did he really feel happy? He was like a man owning a piece of ground in which, unknown to himself, a treasure lay buried. Eugene Delacroix treasurepiecesmen Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude. Eugene Delacroix solitudesoulideas 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. Eugene Delacroix tastebeautylooks Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation. Eugene Delacroix observationdoehappens 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. Eugene Delacroix battlesouldesire 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. Eugene Delacroix rootsevilfear 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. Eugene Delacroix departureprogressbelieve A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product. Eugene Delacroix suggestionsfinishingfeelings To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything. Eugene Delacroix understoodwriting
