Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix
1798 - 1863
French Romanticism Painter
Stylistically influenced by the following painters -Rococo, High Renaissance, Paolo Veronese, Peter Paul Rubens, Michelangelo, John Constable
Cause of Death - Tuberculosis
Eugène Delacroix Quotations About Art and Life
"I confess that I have
worked logically, I, who
have no love for logical
painting. I see now that my
turbulent mind needs
activity, that it must break
out and try a hundred
different ways before
reaching the goal towards
which I am always straining.
There is an old leaven
working in me, some black
depth that must be
appeased." - Delacroix's
journal, 7 May 1824
"If chance had made the
universe, what would
conscience, remorse, and
devotion signify?" Eugène
Delacroix's journal, October
1822
"There are men of virtue as
there are men of genius; the
one group and the other are
inspired and favored by God.
" -- Eugène Delacroix's
journal, October 1822
Do all the work you can;
that is the whole philosophy
of the good way of life." --
Eugène Delacroix Quote
Artists who seek perfection
in everything are those who
cannot attain it in
anything. -- Eugène
Delacroix
"We work not only to produce
but to give value to time."
-- Eugène Delacroix Quote
"What makes men of genius,
or rather, what they make,
is not new ideas, it is that
idea - possessing them -
that what has been said has
still not been said enough."
-- Eugène Delacroix Quote
"Excellent ideas come to me
every moment and if instead
of executing them at the
very moment they are clothed
with the charm imagination
lends them . . . one
forgets, or what is worse,
one no longer finds any
interest in what seemed
inspiring. " -- Eugène
Delacroix
"The source of genius is
imagination alone, the
refinement of the senses
that sees what others do not
see, or sees them different
." -- Eugène Delacroix Quote
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