Eugene Delacroix Quotes About Genius

• Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

  Eugenio Delacroix

  Doe, Genius, Want

• The source of genius is imagination alone.

  Eugenio Delacroix

  Imagination, Genius, Source

• The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

  Eugenio Delacroix

  Art, Imagination, Genius

• Lo que mueve a los genios, lo que inspira su trabajo, no son las ideas nuevas, sino su obsesión por la idea de que lo que ya se ha dicho sigue sin ser suficiente.

  Eugenio Delacroix

  Art, Moving, Ideas

• Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.

  Eugenio Delacroix

  Photography, Men, Genius

• Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the most flagrant blunders. Entire schools have been founded on misinterpretations of certain aspects of the masters. Lamentable mistakes have resulted from the thoughtless enthusiasm with which men have sought inspiration from the worst qualities of remarkable artists because they are unable to reproduce the sublime elements in their work.

  Eugenio Delacroix

  Mistake, Inspiration, School

  "The Journal of Eugene Delacroix : A Selection". Book edited by Hubert Wellington, translated by Lucy Norton, Cornell University Press, January 16, 1860 (p. 391), 1980.

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