Quotes about Eugène Delacroix

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The purity of the spectral element being the keystone of my.... searching for an optical formula on this basis ever, since I held a brush 1876-1884.... having read Charles Blanc in school and therefore knowing Chevreul's laws and Eugene Delacroix's precepts, having read the studies by the same Charles Blanc on the same painter [Delacroix] (in 'Gazette des Beaux-Arts', vol. xvi, if I remember correctly)

This period of blue monochrome was the product of my pursuit of the indefinable in painting which that master, Eugène Delacroix [Romantic French painter] was able to indicate even in his day.

The truth lies somewhere between these two aesthetics [static Cubism and dynamic Futurism]. The 'pure form' of Ingres led inevitably to a life-less Platonism; the lyricism and Romanticism of Eugène Delacroix no longer tailed with our cerebral and geometric age.... as in all great ages, today's artwork must be the synthesis of these two things.