“O homem é um animal sociável que detesta seus semelhantes.”
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
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. Wikipedia

“O homem é um animal sociável que detesta seus semelhantes.”
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
“Primeiro aprenda a ser um artesão. Isso não impedirá você de ser um gênio.”
como citado em "Logus Nosso pensamento" - Página 234, Fabiano Lemo, Thesaurus Editora, 1999, ISBN 8570621663, 9788570621665
“O primeiro mérito de um quadro é ser uma festa para os olhos.”
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
“Por mais que busco a verdade nas massas, não a encontro; somente a encontro nos indivíduos.”
J'ai beau chercher la vérité dans les masses , je ne la rencontre, quand je la rencontre, que dans les individus. <br class="br">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 <br class="br">Variante: Por mais que procure a verdade nas massas, não a encontro, só nos indivíduos.
Variante: Há duas coisas que a experiência deve ensinar: a primeira é que se torna indispensável corrigir muito; a segunda é que se não deve corrigir de mais.
19 January 1847 (p. 55)
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Quote, 29 April 1824 (p. 35)
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23 April 1849 (p. 97)
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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
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21 September 1854 (p. 256)
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quote on Hamlet, in a letter to Victor Hugo, 1828; as quoted in Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock -, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 67
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13 January 1857 (p. 337)
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15 April 1851, as quoted in Artists on Art – from the 14th – 20th centuries, ed. by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, 1972, London, pp. 230 – 231
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13 January 1857 (p. 334)
1831 - 1863, Delacroix' 'Journal' (1847 – 1863)
Quote from a letter to Léon Peisse, 15 July 1949; as cited in Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 68
this quote refers to Delacroix's refusal to use the line as boundary of the form in his painting art, as a too sharp dividing force in the picture - in contrast to the famous classical painter in Paris then, Ingres
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Quote from Delacroix' letter to Théophile Silvestre, Paris, 31 December 1858; as quoted in Eugene Delacroix – selected letters 1813 – 1863, ed. and translation Jean Stewart, art Works MFA publications, Museum of Fine Art Boston, 2001, p. 352
1831 - 1863
“Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.”
25 January 1857 (p. 345)
1831 - 1863, Delacroix' 'Journal' (1847 – 1863)
Quote in Delacroix's Journal of 3 August, 1855; as quoted in Artists on Art – from the 14th – 20th centuries, ed. by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, 1972, London, p. 236
1831 - 1863
13 January 1857 (p. 338)
1831 - 1863, Delacroix' 'Journal' (1847 – 1863)
quote in 1854, on the Italian Renaissance artist [[w:Michelangelo|Michelangelo, as cited in Artists on Art – from the 14th – 20th centuries, ed. by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, 1972, London, p. 235
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16 January 1860 (p. 391)
1831 - 1863, Delacroix' 'Journal' (1847 – 1863)
Quote in Delacroix's Journal of 1850; as cited in Artists on Art – from the 14th – 20th centuries, ed. by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, 1972, London, pp. 230 – 231
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“Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.”
25 January 1857 (p. 346)
1831 - 1863, Delacroix' 'Journal' (1847 – 1863)
Quote from entry of Delacroix's Journal, 14 March, 1847; as cited in Selected writings on Art and Artists, transl. P. E. Charvet – Cambridge University Press, Archive, 1981, p. 150, note 44
This visit of Delacroix was the beginning of an important friendship
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Quote in a letter to his friend J. B. Pierret, 18 September 1818, from the Forest of Boixe; as quoted in Eugene Delacroix – selected letters 1813 – 1863”, ed. and translation Jean Stewart, art Works MFA publications, Museum of Fine Art Boston, 2001, p. 41
1815 - 1830