Occupation: Artist Birth: January 19, 1839 Death: October 22, 1906
I should have wished to possess the intellectual equilibrium that characterizes you and permits you to achieve without fail the desired end... Chance….
Chatter about art is almost always useless..
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself..
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships..
With an apple I will astonish Paris..
If I think, I am lost..
Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a ….
I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth..
I am a pupil of Pissarro..
I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature..
One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art - and this sense is doubtless t….
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see..
All my compatriots are asses compared to me..
Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their perf….
One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's model, and, above all, of the mea….
Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible..
Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine..
There is no model, there is only color..
Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw... When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest..
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?.
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head..