Occupation: Artist Birth: January 19, 1839 Death: October 22, 1906
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience..
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest..
Pure drawing is an abstraction..
I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by s….
My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going..
The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work..
One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it..
I'd like to combine melancholy and sunshine... There's a sadness in Provence which no one has expressed... I'd like to put reason in the grass and te….
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well..
Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep dow….
I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature..
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art..
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest..
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other..
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art..
I advance all of my canvas at one time..
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas..
It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive..
Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment..
In order to make progress, there is only nature, and the eye is turned through contact with her..
I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs..