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Authors
Eugene Delacroix
French
Artist
About the author
Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
Eugene Delacroix,
French
Artist
#Words
#Nature
A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.
Eugene Delacroix,
French
Artist
#Simplicity
#Taste
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
Eugene Delacroix,
French
Artist
#Life
#Work
#Philosophy
Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.
Eugene Delacroix,
French
Artist
#Will
#Language
#Soul
If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
Eugene Delacroix,
French
Artist
#Life
#Nothing
Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
Eugene Delacroix,
French
Artist
#Talent
#Genius
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,
French
Artist
#Work
#Idea
#Ideas
#Genius
#Obsession
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Eugene Delacroix,
French
Artist
#Nothing
#Perfection
#Artist