Eugene Delacroix Quotes

The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

I'm very interested in the question of how we perceive something, how consciousness goes from one thing, like looking at you in your black hat to what it might mean to my imagination and how I would draw that or write that, how I would subjectify you? It's something that is endlessly interesting to me.

Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience.

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

To know the world, one must construct it

The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.

We bring about a world in consciousness that is partly what is given, and partly what we bring, something that comes into being through this particular conjunction and no other. And the key to this is the kind of attention we pay to the world.

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

Nature is what you see plus what you think about it.

The world cannot be translated; It can only be dreamed of and touched.

Facts do not constitute truth.

Memory is imagination pinned down.

Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.

The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."

It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.

Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

As a child, reality is whatever one makes of it.

And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.