Eugene Delacroix

Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.

The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.

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

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.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.