Quote of Eugene Delacroix - What moves those of genius, what...

Biography - Eugene Delacroix:

French painter .
Born: 1798 - Died: 1863
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: France
France

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What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.”
Eugene Delacroix

Quotes about idea:

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have.”
Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald

There is something real in ideas, through which the true are distinguished from the false.”
Baruch Spinoza - Tractatus de intellectus emendatione

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An idea is a meteor.”
Victor Hugo

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Where does this idea come from? It is like a pair of glasses on our nose through which we see whatever we look at. It never occurs to us to take them off.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations

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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.”
Victor Hugo

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Quotes for: genius:

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

In fact, every child is to a certain extent a genius, and every genius to a certain extent a child.”
Arthur Schopenhauer

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What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.”
Pablo Picasso

My books are like water those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.”
Mark Twain

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
Albert Einstein

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Eugene Delacroix also said...

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

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