in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.
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Aphorisms by Eugène Delacroix
The only ones who can really benefit by consulting the model are those who can produce their effect without a model.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
Inspiration is getting to our studies at 9 am.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.
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I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my solitude, or in the midst of the distractions that I pursue, a charming memory that does not in the least resemble the troubled pleasure of lovers.
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Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.
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Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment of their contemporaries, how different their reputations would be from what posterity has made them!
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