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.
How can this world, which is so beautiful, include so much horror? - Eugene Delacroix
How can this world, which is so beautiful, include so much horror?
- Eugene Delacroix
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. - Eugene Delacroix
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
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 wil… - Eugene Delacroix
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 wil…
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. - Eugene Delacroix
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.
If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us. - Eugene Delacroix
If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
When a thing bores you, do not do it. - Eugene Delacroix
When a thing bores you, do not do it.
Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can. - Eugene Delacroix
Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture. - Eugene Delacroix
Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.
Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation. - Eugene Delacroix
Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.
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