Eugéne Delacroix citáty
Eugéne Delacroix
Datum narození: 26. duben 1798
Datum úmrtí: 13. srpen 1863
Další jména: Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix, Фердинан Виктор Эжен Делакруа
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix [Delakrua] byl nejvýznamnější francouzský malíř období romantismu, jedna z největších osobností světového malířství 19. století.
Citáty Eugéne Delacroix
„Pravda se zjevuje jen géniovi, a génius je proto vždycky sám.“
Zdroj: [Néret, Gilles, Eugène Delacroix 1798–1863. The Prince of Romanticism, Taschen, Köln, 2004, 96, přebal, 3-8228-5988-5]
„Well! A general invasion: Hamlet rears his hideous head, Othello is preparing his dagger, that essentially murderous weapon, subversive of all good theatrical government. What more, who knows... King Lear is to tear his eyes before a French audience. It should be a point of dignity for the Academy to declare that all imports of this kind are incompatible with public morals. Farewell good taste! In any case, equip yourself with a stout coat of mail under your evening dress. Beware of the Classicist's daggers, or rather, sacrifice yourself valiantly for our barbarian pleasure..“
quote on Hamlet, in a letter to Victor Hugo, 1828; as quoted in Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock -, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 67
1815 - 1830
„He [ Michelangelo ] did not know a single one of the feelings of man, not one of his passions. When he was making an arm or a leg, it seems as if he were thinking only of that arm or leg and was not giving the slightest consideration to the way it relates with the action of the figure to which it belongs, much less to the action of the picture as a whole... Therein lies his great merit; he brings a sense of the grand and the terrible into even an isolated limb.“
quote in 1854, on the Italian Renaissance artist [[w:Michelangelo|Michelangelo, as cited in Artists on Art – from the 14th – 20th centuries, ed. by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, 1972, London, p. 235
1831 - 1863
