If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping from a window in the time it takes him to fall, you will never produce great work.
La couleur est par excellence la partie de l'art qui détient le don magique.
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Eugène Delacroix
Born in 1798 near Paris, Delacroix led French Romanticism with dramatic color and emotional intensity. Liberty Leading the People became a symbol of revolutionary spirit and French national identity.
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