Quote by Eugene Delacroix
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in not

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. – Eugene Delacroix

Other quotes by Eugene Delacroix

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict. – Eugene Delacroix

Category:
Mankind, Man
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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

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work
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Other Quotes from
Art
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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it. – Havelock Ellis

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Art

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of mens lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque. – John Ruskin

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Art

An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it. – Paul Valéry

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Art

Good architecture lets nature in. – Mario Pei (1901–1978)

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Art

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I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, lifes big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics. – Rainn Wilson

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cool