Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you... The greatest happiness is to reveal it to others, to study oneself, to paint oneself continually in [one's] work. Eugene Delacroix More Quotes by Eugene Delacroix More Quotes From Eugene Delacroix Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh. Eugene Delacroix mud flesh giving Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses. Eugene Delacroix finishing 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. Eugene Delacroix genius photography men A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings. Eugene Delacroix marriage wife blessing 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. Eugene Delacroix inspiration mistake school Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion. Eugene Delacroix sublime enough want In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What is a black-and-white drawing but a convention to which the beholder has become so accustomed that with his mind's eye he sees a complete equivalent in the translation from nature? Eugene Delacroix eye mean art We should not allow ourselves to believe that writers like Poe have more imagination than those who are content with describing things as they really are. It is surely easier to invent striking situations in this way than to tread the beaten track which intelligent minds have followed throughout the centuries. Eugene Delacroix track intelligent believe 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. Eugene Delacroix stolen matter way What I have done cannot be taken from me. Eugene Delacroix immortality done taken 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. Eugene Delacroix perspective lines eye A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long. Eugene Delacroix cannot simplicity taste long
