Eugene Delacroix Quotes About Perspective

• All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.

  Eugenio Delacroix

  Black And White, Color, Talking

• 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

• At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression changes completely: I see it as big, and even terrifying in its bigness.

  Eugenio Delacroix

  Distance, Perspective, Ordinary

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