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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
The contour eludes me.
If I think, I am lost.
I want to die painting.
I wish to die painting.
I am a pupil of Pissarro.
I allow no one to touch me.
A puny body weakens the soul.
I have sworn to die painting.
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
Nature is the best instructor.
If I think, everything is lost.
Pure drawing is an abstraction.
Pleasure must be found in study.
I paint as if I were Rothschild.
When I start thinking, all is lost.
All the theories mess you up inside.
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
There is no model, there is only color.
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
All my compatriots are asses compared to me.
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read.
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front.
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.
I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.
I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
