 A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. Topics: Art |
| The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine. |
| Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted. |
| The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. |
| People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day. |
| Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know. |
| I am the primitive of the method I have invented. |
| You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest. |
| My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me. |
| Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. |
| I allow no one to touch me. |
| I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting. |
| I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain. |
| The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. Topics: Art |
| A puny body weakens the soul. |
| Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life? |
| Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. |
| I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me. |
| I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. |
| It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away. |
