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It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment.
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
When a picture isn't realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one!
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist.
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going.
Everything is about to disappear. You've got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
In order to make progress, there is only nature, and the eye is turned through contact with her.
Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
Time and reflection... modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.
I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth.
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.
Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.