Quotes of Eugene Delacroix - somelinesforyou

“ Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. ”

- Eugene Delacroix

“ I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. ”

- Eugene Delacroix

“ Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. ”

- Eugene Delacroix

“ The things we experience for ourselves when we are alone are much stronger and much fresher. ”

- Eugene Delacroix

“ Think of the blessings that await you, not of the emptiness that drives you to seek constant distraction. ”

- Eugene Delacroix

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

- Eugene Delacroix

“ 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. ”

- Eugene Delacroix

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

- Eugene Delacroix

“ I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict. ”

- Eugene Delacroix

“ 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… ”

- Eugene Delacroix

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

- Eugene Delacroix

“ I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict. ”

- Eugene Delacroix

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

- Eugene Delacroix

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

- Eugene Delacroix

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

- Eugene Delacroix

“ 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… ”

- Eugene Delacroix

“ 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… ”

- Eugene Delacroix

“ What torments my soul is its loneliness. The more it expands among friends and the daily habits or pleasures, the more, it seems to me, it flees me and retires into its fortress. The poet who lives in solitude, but who produces much, is the one who enjoys those treasures we bear in our bosom, but which forsake us when we give ourselves to others… ”

- Eugene Delacroix

“ Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. ”

- Eugene Delacroix

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

- Eugene Delacroix

“ 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… ”

- Eugene Delacroix

“ 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. ”

- Eugene Delacroix

“ 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… ”

- Eugene Delacroix

“ 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… ”

- Eugene Delacroix

“ I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict. ”

- Eugene Delacroix

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

- Eugene Delacroix

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

- Eugene Delacroix

“ 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… ”

- Eugene Delacroix

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

- Eugene Delacroix

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

- Eugene Delacroix
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