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

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

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About Eugène Delacroix

Eugène Delacroix (April 26 1798 – August 13 1863) was a French painter, one of the leading artists of Romanticism in Europe of the nineteenth century.

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Alternative Names: Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix Ferdinand-Victor-Eugene Delacroix Eugene Delacroix Ferdinand-Eugène-Victor Delacroix Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix Ferdinand-Eugene-Victor Delacroix Delacroix
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Constable, an admirable man, is one of England's glories. I have already told you about him and about the impression he had made on me when I was making 'The massacre at Chios'. He and Turner were real reformers. They broke out of the rut of traditional landscape painting. Our School [ French Romanticism ], which today abounds in men of talent in this field, profited greatly by their example. Géricault [first leader of French Romanticism, followed by Delacroix after his early death] came back in a daze from seeing one of the great landscapes Constable sent us.

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