Eugène Delacroix (April 26, 1798 – August 13, 1863)

Self-Portrait

1837

Eugène Delacroix was one of the greatest Romanticists. His abilities to display complex emotions and capture the wild motions of his characters were extremely sharp. Delacroix was incredibly intelligent and witty, and produced one of my favorite aphorisms on Art: “What moves those of genius, what inspires their work are not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.”