What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand. Eugene Delacroix More Quotes by Eugene Delacroix More Quotes From Eugene Delacroix Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men. Eugene Delacroix appreciationmenfather Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life. Eugene Delacroix workphilosophylife Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself. Eugene Delacroix exactitudecoldart Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture. Eugene Delacroix constructsimaginationlooks The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for that, you must acquire facility, furnish one's memory to the point of infinitude, and make numerous drawings after the old masters. Eugene Delacroix drawingmemoriesideas One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy. Eugene Delacroix artistshouldenemy I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. Eugene Delacroix companionsilentbody 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. Eugene Delacroix drawingcolorlaw Real beauty in the arts is eternal and would be accepted at all periods; but it wears the dress of its century: something of that dress clings to it, and woe to the works which appear in periods when the general taste is corrupted. Eugene Delacroix realdressesart What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions. Eugene Delacroix conventionssovereignbeauty When a thing bores you, do not do it. Eugene Delacroix bores-youboresboredom I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget that I am writing for myself alone. Thus I shall always tell the truth, I hope, and thus I shall improve myself. These pages will reproach me for my changes of mind. Eugene Delacroix mindwritinglong 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. Eugene Delacroix soulracewings Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done. Eugene Delacroix experiencedonegiving The secret of not having worries, for me at least, is to have ideas. Eugene Delacroix worryinspirationalideas I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my solitude, or in the midst of the distractions that I pursue, a charming memory that does not in the least resemble the troubled pleasure of lovers. Eugene Delacroix mistresssolitudememories The only ones who can really benefit by consulting the model are those who can produce their effect without a model. Eugene Delacroix consultingproducebenefits At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression changes completely: I see it as big, and even terrifying in its bigness. Eugene Delacroix distanceperspectiveordinary The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly. Eugene Delacroix lastseyeshould If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment of their contemporaries, how different their reputations would be from what posterity has made them! Eugene Delacroix actorsdifferentwould-be
