How can this world, which is so beautiful, include so much horror?

- 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…

- Eugene Delacroix

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

- 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

Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.

- Eugene Delacroix

When a thing bores you, do not do it.

- Eugene Delacroix

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

- Eugene Delacroix

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

- Eugene Delacroix

Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.

- Eugene Delacroix