Eugene Delacroix Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

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

  Eugene Delacroix

  Art, Eye, Firsts

• The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in itself, that has virtue, albeit the virtue there is in mere illusions. Nature gives us this life like a toy to a weak child. We want to see how it all works; we break everything. There remains in our hands, and before our eyes, stupid and opened too late, the sterile wreckage, fragments that will not again make a whole. The good is so simple.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Nature, Children, Stupid

• The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Eye, Lasts, Should

  "Journal of Delacroix". Book by Hubert Wellington, translated by Lucy Norton, Introduction, 1980.

• Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity, bringing forward those parts of an object which are always most distant from the eye - namely its outlines.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Eye, Perspective, Lines

• There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the highest point in his work: what he does is done - through and through; when he paints eyes, they are lit with the fire of life.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Eye, Men, Fire

• In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What is a black-and-white drawing but a convention to which the beholder has become so accustomed that with his mind's eye he sees a complete equivalent in the translation from nature?

  Eugene Delacroix

  Art, Mean, Eye

  "Journal of Delacroix". Book by Hubert Wellington, translated by Lucy Norton, p.334, 1980.

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