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

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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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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

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They tell you that the great painters mixed blood with their pigments. It is not true; the compound used was brains. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Thats the motivation of an artist – to seek attention of some kind. – James Taylor

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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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All art is quite useless. – Oscar Wilde

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