Eugene Delacroix Quotes About Eyes

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

  Eugenio Delacroix

  Art, Eye, Firsts

• La verdadera sabiduría del filósofo debería insistir en disfrutarlo todo. Sin embargo, nos aplicamos a diseccionar y destruir todo lo que es bueno en sí mismo, lo que tiene virtud, aunque la virtud esté en meras ilusiones. La naturaleza nos da esta vida como un juguete a un niño débil. Queremos ver cómo funciona todo; lo rompemos todo. Quedan en nuestras manos, y ante nuestros ojos, estúpidos y abiertos demasiado tarde, los restos estériles, fragmentos que no volverán a formar un todo. Lo bueno es tan sencillo.

  Eugenio Delacroix

  Nature, Children, Stupid

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

  Eugenio 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.

  Eugenio 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.

  Eugenio 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?

  Eugenio Delacroix

  Art, Mean, Eye

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

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