Noun
French romantic painter (1798-1863)
Source: WordNetHe [ Delacroix ] is an eagle, I am only a lark. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Delacroix was right. It is the struggle that matters. Not the outcome. I was where I should have been that Saturday in front of the Paris Opera House. Yes, our cries were not heard. Chris Hedges
This period of blue monochrome was the product of my pursuit of the indefinable in painting which that master, Eugène Delacroix [Romantic French painter] was able to indicate even in his day. Yves Klein
Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, and coldly determined to seek the means of expressing passion in the most visible manner. In this dual character, be it said in passing, we find the two distinguishing marks of the most substantial geniuses, extreme geniuses. Charles Baudelaire
What is the secret behind the emotional effect of great works of painting? What laws govern their beauty? Delacroix said that being a feast for the eyes is the prime merit of a good painting. I seek the timeless, the quintessential in painting. Stefan Szczesny
The light! [in the paintings of Délacroix ].. .There is more warm light in this interior [probably: 'Woman of Algiers'] of his than in all of Corot's landscapes.. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot