To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet

Quote by Eugene Delacroix

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We...

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We...

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way...

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way...

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way...

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way...

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their...

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their...

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence...

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence...

My painting does not come from the easel.

My painting does not come from the easel.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of...

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of...

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film...

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film...

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a...

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a...

What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.

What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

There is no must in art because art is free.

There is no must in art because art is free.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections...

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections...

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the future

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the future

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one you have

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one you have

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it