Occupation: Artist Birth: January 19, 1839 Death: October 22, 1906
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all..
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it..
Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator..
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't..
All the theories mess you up inside..
Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment….
I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer….
I am the primitive of the method I have invented..
If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil ….
Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We….
Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color..
An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented by colo….
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones..
The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it..
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness..
Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left..
The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture...we merge in an iridescent chaos..
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life..
Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?.
The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest..
May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything brought into proper perspective so that ea….