Delacroix in his artist quotes on painting & life in Romanticism - free resource, French art history

Eugene Delacroix in quotes - the artist on his painting art and life in Romanticism in France - free resource for students, pupils and teachers in French art history

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In his artist quotes Delacroix often referred to the close relation between painting and literature. Many selected quotes here are taken from his letters to French friends and from his many Journals. He wrote for instance about his laziness, his start of the famous painting ‘Liberty’ and informs us about his ideas on Beauty, and Romanticism.

Eugene Delacroix was the leading painter of Romanticism in France. He was moreover strongly fascinated by drama and theater which inspired his painting art. He loved the great mythological subjects and stories as motifs for his works. Dramatic and romantic content characterizes most of his paintings.
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Some selected artist-quotes of French famous artist Eugene Delacroix - as a short impression of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’I am sure of it, great friendship is like great genius, and the remembrance of a great and enduring friendship is like that of great works of genius… What a life would be that of two great poets who loved each other as we do! That would be too great for human kind.’ - quote of Delacroix in a letter to his friend J. B. Pierret, Sept. 1818

• ’Some say it is a complete downfall; that the ‘Death of Sardanaplus’ (Delacroix painted this painting in 1827) is that of the Romantics, inasmuch as Romantics do exist; others merely say that I am an ‘inganno’ (a fraud)… …(they are) all imbeciles…’ - Delacroix’s quote, in a letter to his friend Charles Soulier, March 1828

• ’The more I think about colour, the more convinced I become that this reflected half-tint is the principle that must predominate, because it is this that gives the true tone, the tone that constitutes the value, the thing that matters in giving life and character to the object’ - Quote in Delacroix’s Journal, April 1854
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  selection of free art-resources on French famous artist Eugene Delacroix:

  • extended biographical notes of Delacroix, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugène_Delacroix
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Delacroix, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eugène_Delacroix
  • images of his painting art, on WikimediaCommons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eugène_Delacroix
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]