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Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done.
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Aphorisms by Eugène Delacroix
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expressses, is art itself.
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Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.
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Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.
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What I have done cannot be taken from me.
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At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression changes completely: I see it as big, and even terrifying in its bigness.
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Those things which are most real are the illusions I create in my paintings.
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One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.
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Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.
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