Eugene Delacroix Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Doe, Genius, Want

• The source of genius is imagination alone.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Imagination, Genius, Source

• The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Art, Imagination, 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

  Art, Moving, Ideas

• Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the most flagrant blunders. Entire schools have been founded on misinterpretations of certain aspects of the masters. Lamentable mistakes have resulted from the thoughtless enthusiasm with which men have sought inspiration from the worst qualities of remarkable artists because they are unable to reproduce the sublime elements in their work.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Mistake, Inspiration, School

  "The Journal of Eugene Delacroix : A Selection". Book edited by Hubert Wellington, translated by Lucy Norton, Cornell University Press, January 16, 1860 (p. 391), 1980.

• Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Photography, Men, Genius

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