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

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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The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.

Henri Bergson - Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness

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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

Good sense and genius beget esteem and regard: Wit and humour excite love and affection.

David Hume

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

The first and last thing required of genius is love of truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Maxims and Reflections

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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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