Eugène Delacroix was a famous French painter, muralist and printmaker associated with the French Romantic art movement. He is best known for his large, dramatic scenes where color and movement were emphasized. Famous Eugène Delacroix artworks include “The Death of Sardanapalus”, “Horse Frightened by a Storm”, “Liberty Leading the People”, “Christ on the Sea of Galilee”, “The Barque of Dante”, “Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius”, “Arab Horses Fighting in a Stable”, “Jewish Wedding in Morocco”, “Young Orphan Girl in the Cemetery”, and “Medea about to Kill Her Children”.
Mini biography: Born Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix on the 26th of April, 1798 in Charenton-Saint-Maurice, Île-de-France, France. His mother was Victoire Oeben and his father Charles-François Delacroix was a minister of foreign affairs. It has been speculated that Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord may have been his real father. The artist died on the 13th of August, 1863 in Paris, France at the age of 65. Delacroix is buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
List of Famous Eugène Delacroix Art Quotes
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. Eugène Delacroix
Perhaps we shall one day find that Rembrandt is a greater painter than Raphael. I write down this blasphemy which will cause the hair of the school-men to stand on end without taking sides. Eugène Delacroix
I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure. Eugène Delacroix
The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly. Eugène Delacroix
Can any man say with certainty that he was happy at a particular moment of time which he remembers as being delightful? Remembering it certainly makes him happy, because he realizes how happy he could have been, but at the actual moment when the alleged happiness was occurring, did he really feel happy? He was like a man owning a piece of ground in which, unknown to himself, a treasure lay buried. Eugène Delacroix
One has to see a painter in his own place to get an idea of his worth. Eugène Delacroix
Criticism, like so many other things, keeps to what has been said before and does not get out of the rut. This business of the ‘Beautiful’ some see it in curved lines, some in straight lines, but all persist in seeing it as a matter of line. I am now looking out of my window and I can see the most lovely countryside; lines just do not come into my head: the lark is singing, the river sparkles with a thousand diamonds, the leaves are whispering; where, I should like to know, are the lines that produce delicious impressions like these? They refuse to see proportion or harmony except between two lines: all else they regard as chaos, and the dividers alone are judge. Eugène Delacroix
Titian is the least mannered and consequently the most varied of artists. Mannered talents have but one bias, one usage only. They are more apt to follow the impulse of the hand than to control it. Those that are less mannered must be more varied, for they continually respond to genuine emotion. Eugène Delacroix
Constable, an admirable man, is one of England’s glories. I have already told you about him and about the impression he had made on me when I was making ‘The massacre at Chios’. He and Turner were real reformers. They broke out of the rut of traditional landscape painting. Eugène Delacroix
Art Quotes About Eugene Delacroix
Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, and coldly determined to seek the means of expressing passion in the most visible manner. In this dual character, be it said in passing, we find the two distinguishing marks of the most substantial geniuses, extreme geniuses. Charles Baudelaire Quotes
Eugène Delacroix Self Portrait Painting
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