Quotes About Delacroix

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

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

I should not be surprised if the impressionists soon find fault with my way of working, for it has been fertilized by the ideas of Delacroix rather than by theirs. Because, instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I have before my eyes, I use colour more arbitrarily so as to express myself forcibly.

Trying to find Delacroix here based on Schnapp's description would be like searching a beehive for a male with a striped belly.