Quotes by Delacroix, Eugene

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

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain >>

What torments my soul is its loneliness. The more it expands among fri >>

Quotations about Talent

It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a go >>

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is m >>

I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what >>

Ordinary people think that talent must be always on its own level and that it arises every morning like the sun, rested and refreshed, ready to draw from the same storehouse -- always open, always full, always abundant -- new treasures that it will heap up on those of the day before; such people are unaware that, as in the case of all mortal things, talent has its increase and decrease, and that independently of the career it takes, like everything that breathes... it undergoes all the accidents of health, of sickness, and of the dispositions of the soul -- its gaiety or its sadness. As with our perishable flesh. talent is obliged constantly to keep guard over itself, to combat, and to keep perpetually on the alert amid the obstacles that witness the exercise of its singular power.

Delacroix, Eugene