Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
More Quotes from Eugene Delacroix:
Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.Eugene Delacroix
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Eugene Delacroix
Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.
Eugene Delacroix
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
Eugene Delacroix
Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character.
Eugene Delacroix
If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
Eugene Delacroix
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