Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
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Citations by Eugène Delacroix
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.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Soul)
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."
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty.
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It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
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.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
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.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
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.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them. It is at such moments that one fully realizes one's own weaknesses.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.
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