Color is, so to speak, what gives the painting its blood and its life.

Ce qui fait les hommes de génie, ce n'est pas les idées neuves, c'est cette idée qui les possède, que ce qui a été dit ne l'a pas encore été assez.

Eugène Delacroix

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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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Eugène Delacroix's Other Quotes

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.

What moves men of genius is not new ideas, but their obsession that what has been said is not enough.

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Expect the unexpected. And whenever possible, be the unexpected.

-- Jack Dorsey

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

-- Linus Pauling

For truly art lies hidden in nature; whoever can draw it out possesses it.

-- Albrecht Dürer

To paint a beautiful woman I would need to see many, but since beautiful women are scarce, I make use of a certain idea that comes to my mind.

-- Raphael

I saw an angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

-- Michelangelo

I do not seek; I find.

-- Rembrandt