Occupation: Artist Birth: June 7, 1848 Death: May 8, 1903
There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme..
We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves..
Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and Nature herself, obedient to ….
for Christ's sake, were the mountains blue, then chuck on some blue and don't go telling me that it was a blue a bit like this or like that, it was b….
I plunged eagerly and passionately into the wilderness, as if in the hope of thus penetrating into the very heart of this Nature, powerful and matern….
However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end..
It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own..
A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets..
There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of the….
My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist!.
It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone..
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge..
Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had passionately giv….
How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered?.
Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemori….
My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me..
Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth.
Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them..
By the combination of lines and colors, under the pretext of some motif taken from nature, I create symphonies and harmonies that represent nothing a….
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite..
Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it..