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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

— Eugène Delacroix Delacroix' 'Journal (1847)

Les artistes qui cherchent la perfection en tout sont ceux qui ne peuvent l'atteindre en aucune partie.

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Quote, 14 March 1858, from Journal de Eugène Delacroix, book 3

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