Best Delacroix Quotes

#1. Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under the light.

Eugene Delacroix

#2. The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.

Henri Delacroix

#3. One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it.

Eugene Delacroix

#4. Now that you are here--now that we're together-- I can't imagine going back to the life I had before. I don't know what I'd do if I lost you now. I love you too much. ~Vincent Delacroix, Until I Die (ARC), Amy Plum p. 71

Amy Plum

#5. 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

#6. Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut.

Eugene Delacroix

#7. 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

#8. Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.

Eugene Delacroix

#9. We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.

Eugene Delacroix

#10. It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist ... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks ... where written comments and personal notes provide an intimate insight into the magical mind of a working artist.

Eugene Delacroix

#11. Always, at the back of your soul, there is something that says to you, 'Mortal, drawn from eternal life for a short time, think how precious these moments are.

Eugene Delacroix

#12. Everyone who was in the Delacroix house on Christmas morning got a stocking. That was one of the rules.

Eileen Wilks

#13. 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

#14. When all is said and done scholars can do no more than find in nature what is already there.

Eugene Delacroix

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

Eugene Delacroix

#16. In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#17. Every time I await a model, even when I am most pressed to time, I am overjoyed when the time comes and I tremble when I hear the key turn in the door.

Eugene Delacroix

#18. 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

#19. Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.

Eugene Delacroix

#20. What I have done cannot be taken from me.

Eugene Delacroix

#21. The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly.

Eugene Delacroix

#22. A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.

Eugene Delacroix

#23. When a thing bores you, do not do it.

Eugene Delacroix

#24. Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

Eugene Delacroix

#25. This became Delacroix 's theme: that the achievements of the spirit all that a great library contained were the result of a state of society so delicately balanced that at the least touch they would be crushed beneath an avalanche of pent-up animal forces.

Kenneth Clark

#26. 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

#27. A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.

Eugene Delacroix

#28. What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.

Eugene Delacroix

#29. Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.

Eugene Delacroix

#30. Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix