Occupation: Artist Birth: January 19, 1839 Death: October 22, 1906
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality..
Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think..
I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front..
My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life..
Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand..
The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predece….
Time and reflection... modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us..
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors..
I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you..
See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere..
All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private l….
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured..
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings..
The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture o….
Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted..
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant..
One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction..
I want to die painting..
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution..
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter..
Art is a harmony parallel with nature..