Delacroix

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    A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.
    —Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863)

    What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea—possessing them—that what has been said has still not been said enough.
    —Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863)

    I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict.
    —Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863)