3 Eugene Delacroix Quotes on Style

Eugene Delacroix quotes on style

14. He [ Titian ] is the least mannered and consequently the most varied of artists. Mannered talents have but one bias, one usage only. They are more apt to follow the impulse of the hand than to control it. Those that are less mannered must be more varied, for they continually respond to genuine emotion.

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

27. His remains the finest palette in France and nobody in our country has possessed at once such calm and pathos, such shimmering color. We all paint in him.