PaintingDb™ | artists | Delacroix, Ferdinand Victor Eugéne

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

I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and the mind of the spectator.

Eugene Delacroix

One never paints violently enough.

Eugene Delacroix

Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.

Eugene Delacroix

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

Eugene Delacroix

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

Eugene Delacroix

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

Eugene Delacroix