Occupation: Artist Birth: June 7, 1848 Death: May 8, 1903
Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!.
Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions..
Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation..
If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue..
Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams..
Happiness and work rose up together with the sun, radiant like it..
Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul..
I shut my eyes in order to see..
A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you….
Where do we come from? What are We? Where are we going?.
Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in coming. And yet you….
How do you see those tree?... They are yellow. Well then put down yellow. And that shadow is rather blue. So render it with pure ultramarine. Those r….
Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction..
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form..
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and th….
Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece..
When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body..
No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality ….
There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings ….
I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates..
A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business..