Frases de Eugéne Delacroix
Eugéne Delacroix
Data de nascimento: 26. Abril 1798
Data de falecimento: 13. Agosto 1863
Outros nomes: Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix, Фердинан Виктор Эжен Делакруа
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix foi um importante pintor francês do Romantismo.Delacroix é considerado o mais importante representante do romantismo francês. Na sua obra convergem a voluptuosidade de Rubens, o refinamento de Veronese, a expressividade cromática de William Turner e o sentimento patético de seu grande amigo Géricault. O pintor, que como poucos soube sublimar os sentimentos por meio da cor, escreveu: "…nem sempre a pintura precisa de um tema". E isso seria de vital importância para a pintura das primeiras vanguardas.
Citações Eugéne Delacroix
„O homem é um animal sociável que detesta seus semelhantes.“
— Eugéne Delacroix
L'homme est un animal sociable qui déteste ses semblables.
Journal de Eugène Delacroix ... - Volume 1, Página xxiv, Eugène Delacroix - E. Plon, Nourrit et cie, 1893 - 452 páginas
„Por mais que busco a verdade nas massas, não a encontro; somente a encontro nos indivíduos.“
— Eugéne Delacroix
J'ai beau chercher la vérité dans les masses , je ne la rencontre, quand je la rencontre, que dans les individus.
Eugéne Delacroix: sa vie et ses œuvres / [par E. A. Piron] - Página 468 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=ZKgZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA468, Eugène Delacroix, E. A. Piron - J. Claye, 1865 - 544 páginas
„O primeiro mérito de um quadro é ser uma festa para os olhos.“
— Eugéne Delacroix
Le premier mérite d'un tableau est d'etre une fête pour l'œil
Eugène Delacroix: Sonderausstellung des Landes Baden-Württemberg; Staatliche ... - Página 37, Eugène Delacroix, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe - Kehrer, 2003, ISBN 3936636133, 9783936636130 - 399 páginas
„Primeiro aprenda a ser um artesão. Isso não impedirá você de ser um gênio.“
— Eugéne Delacroix
como citado em "Logus Nosso pensamento" - Página 234, Fabiano Lemo, Thesaurus Editora, 1999, ISBN 8570621663, 9788570621665
„One should always be desiring or hoping for something. When one can hope for that which one desires, one enjoys the greatest happiness of which our thinking apparatus is capable. To obtain what one has been desiring is the first step to the depths of sadness and even pain, from which one can never emerge. The sea still enchants me; I linger for three or four hours at a time on the jetty or at the edge of the cliffs. Impossible to tear oneself away. If I could lead such a life for a certain time, coupling it with some interesting occupation, I should enjoy excellent health.“
— Eugène Delacroix
1831 - 1863, Quote from his letter to Madame de Forget, Dieppe, 13 September 1852; as quoted in Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 68
Delacroix's quote refers to his stay at the coast at Dieppe
„For a man who is sensitive to nature, happiness consists in expressing nature. How infinitely happy, then, is the man who reflects nature like a mirror without being aware of it, who does the thing for love of it and not from any pretensions to take first place. This noble unself-consciousness is what we find in all truly great men, in the founders of the arts. I picture the great Poussin, in his retreat, delighting in the study of the human heart.... I picture Raphael in the arms of his mistress, turning from La Fornarina to paint his Saint Cecilia.... I am only too well aware that I am far not only from their divine spirit, but even from their modest simplicity…“
— Eugène Delacroix
1815 - 1830, Quote in a letter to Delacroix' friend J. B. Pierret, 23 October 1818, from the Forest of Boixe; as quoted in Eugene Delacroix – selected letters 1813 – 1863, ed. and transl. Jean Stewart, art Works MFA publications, Museum of Fine Art Boston, 2001, p. 43
„The Natural History Museum is open to the public on Tuesdays and Fridays. Elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus; extraordinary animals! Rubens rendered them marvellously. I had a feeling of happiness as soon as I entered the place and the further I went the stronger it grew. I felt my whole being rise above commonplaces and trivialities and the petty worries of my daily life.“
— Eugène Delacroix
1831 - 1863, 19 January 1847 (p. 55)
„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
1831 - 1863, 28 April 1854 (p. 227)
„To be like other people is the real condition of happiness. Sea air and diversions are producing this miraculous effect upon me. What you need is just the contrary. You are dying of boredom from what most mortals regard as bliss – having nothing to do. You need the treatment opposite to mine; I am not joking in the very least: one has to be compelled to some task, driven to it: anyone who is not a drunken brute must achieve boredom at all costs unless he can discover the secret of a taste for amusements... These reflections.... are not likely to comfort you, but they will change your frame of mind for a few minutes. I shall probably be back in Paris on Thursday…“
— Eugène Delacroix
1831 - 1863, In: a letter to Madame de Forget, Dieppe, 13 September 1852; as quoted in Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 68
