The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
More Quotes from Eugene Delacroix:
What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea -- possessing them -- that what has been said has still not been said enough.Eugene Delacroix
Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
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.
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Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
Eugene Delacroix
Experience has two things to teach The first is that we must correct a great deal the second that we must not correct too much.
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One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it.
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