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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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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. It is the opening of our mental pores, and the stimulus of marshaling our ideas in words, of setting them forth as gallantly and as graciously as we can.
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Eugène Delacroix

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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