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The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.

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Painting is only a bridge linking the painter's mind with that of the viewer.

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Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing.

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O young artist, you search for a subject — everything is a subject. Your subject is yourself, your impressions, your emotions in the presence of nature.

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The new is very ancient, one might almost say that it is always the most ancient thing there is.

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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
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Eugène Delacroix

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Born: April 26, 1798
Died: August 13, 1863 (aged 65)
Bio: Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.
Known for:
  1. Liberty Leading the People (1830)
  2. The Death of Sardanapalus (1827)
  3. The Massacre at Chios (1824)
  4. Women of Algiers (1834)
  5. The Barque of Dante (1822)

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