Quotes from Eugene Delacroix

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

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

Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.

The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

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

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

Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude.

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.

What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.

Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done.

Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life