5 Eugene Delacroix Quotes on History

Eugene Delacroix quotes on history

5. I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure.

10. They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other.

16. For his contemporaries, Racine was a romantic, but for every age he is classical, that is to say, he is faultless.

17. Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.

34. Delacroix at Web Museum