What makes it so good literary works of non literati is that when they make a tour of this strange art, only speak of what they know, while the declared writer is often dragged to talk about all kinds of things that language fluency ... This idea could be applied Eugène Delacroix himself, who also pointed to secretly enjoy the advantage of painting art not be a chatterbox. However, or precisely why, Delacroix writes, and does so in magazines, flyers, cards, albums, etc. These writings, gathered through the work of Achille Piron and after Élie Faure, ranging from 1829 to 1863, condensed on one hand the thinking of the French painter around the beautiful, the (im) thought of all aesthetic, and other metaphysical meditations, scattered with a kind of sweet violence, and bring us a thought about the life of an unexpected rawness.
In the succulent dish a radical reversal of the modern binomial equality / hierarchy pair anchored in impoverished and abstract sociological criteria is highlighted, and whose political aim is the social leveling and power of laws and schools. This binomial is kilter by a new pair equality / selection, but in a strictly opposite, and protected this time in an intensive approach vital character -equality of beings by their ontological dignity / selection of the best nature, and the beautiful , at most
powerful-. This critical investment, which links Delacroix -a behind them, must be said with thinkers like Nietzsche and Spinoza, it reveals in turn that which is the locus of all acts creator, his perpetual absence.