Quotes by Eugene Delacroix

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

“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.”

“We work not only to produce but to give value to time”

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

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

“Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them; when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character.”

“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.”

“Ordinary people think that talent must be always on its own level and that it arises every morning like the sun, rested and refreshed, ready to draw from the same storehouse / always open, always full, always abundant / new treasures that it will heap up on those of the day before; such people are unaware that, as in the case of all mortal things, talent has its increase and decrease, and that independently of the career it takes, like everything that breathes... it undergoes all the accidents of health, of sickness, and of the dispositions of the soul / its gaiety or its sadness. As with our perishable flesh. talent is obliged constantly to keep guard over itself, to combat, and to keep perpetually on the alert amid the obstacles that witness the exercise of its singular power.”

“To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet”

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

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

“Science which has become a great power in the lastcentury, has analyzed everything divine handed down tous in the holy books. After this cruel analysis thelearned of this world have nothing left of all thatwas sacred. But they have only analyzed the parts andoverlooked the whole, and indeed their blindness ismarvelous.”

Experience has two things to teach: The first is that we must correct a great deal the second that we must not correct too much.

We work not only to produce but to give value to time.

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

If one considered life as a simple loan one would perhaps be less exacting.

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.