Eugene Delacroix Quotes About Perfection
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They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other.
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The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.
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The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.
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Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas.
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