Who said it?

[Davo]

"Who would ever believe it? -the things most real to me are the illusions I create in my paintings. All else is quicksand."

Eugene Delacroix

[Thomas Mitchell]

"What does please me is that I am gaining in reason and good sense, without losing the thrill that beauty arouses in me. I do not want to have any illusions, but I think that I am working more calmly than before and that I have the same love for my work. One thing worries me, however. I cannot understand it but I seem to need diversions, such as meeting my friends and so on."

Eugene could've used a site like this.