Eugene Delacroix Quotes

I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.

We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain set of intelligible skills.

It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes. The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one's own hand - that is what is necessary.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

I do not see in what manner practice alone can be sufficient for the production of correct, excellent, and finished pictures. Works deserving this character never were produced, nor ever will arise, from memory alone.

Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.

As to the 'St. Michael,' the subject is very fine, but very difficult, so I doubt that I shall find easily amongst my pupils one capable of carrying it out satisfactorily even after my own drawing. In any case, it will be necessary for me to touch it up carefully with my own hand.

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive.

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.

I can draw really well.

Collage is not a kitchen sink; it's not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.

A great painter can paint something really complex, but they can crystallize it into something really simple.

Shah Rukh is very talented with design, and he is extremely creative.

I've been drawing since I was five years old.

Clare Henderson creates the most beautiful delicate prints and paintings.

The best of any artist is in their art.

Whenever I do someone's portrait, I'm trying to locate the photo in the lens while reaching into that person psychologically. There's the magic! I don't always achieve it. It's a hit or a miss!

I have sketched since a young age, so there's always been an artistic side, a visual side to my personality.

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

Drawing is the root of everything.

Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.

Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!