Quotes by Delacroix, Eugene

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exa >>

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long. >>

Ordinary people think that talent must be always on its own level and >>

Quotations about Loneliness

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my >>

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone. >>

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. >>

What torments my soul is its loneliness. The more it expands among friends and the daily habits or pleasures, the more, it seems to me, it flees me and retires into its fortress. The poet who lives in solitude, but who produces much, is the one who enjoys those treasures we bear in our bosom, but which forsake us when we give ourselves to others. When one yields oneself completely to one's soul, it opens itself to one, and then it is that the capricious thing allows one the greatest of good fortunes... that of sympathizing with others, of studying itself, of painting itself constantly in its works.

Delacroix, Eugene