Occupation: Artist Birth: January 19, 1839 Death: October 22, 1906
I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others..
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature..
The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest..
The contour eludes me..
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link..
Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities of the Schools, all those dreary….
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations..
Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls belo….
The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read..
If I think, everything is lost..
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art..
Everything is about to disappear. You've got to hurry up if you still want to see things..
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it..
When I start thinking, all is lost..
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature..
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions..
Personally I would like to have pupils, a studio, pass on my love to them, work with them, without teaching them anything.. ..A convent, a monastery,….
Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and glory o….
Pleasure must be found in study..
Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist..
Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know..