Occupation: Artist Birth: June 7, 1848 Death: May 8, 1903
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….
Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night..
Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised..
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….
Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist..
The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting..
It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting..
Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows..
A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure the creation which will result, w….
Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me..
With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique..
A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up..
A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it..
I must confess that I too am a woman and that I am always prepared to applaud a woman who is more daring than I, and is equal to a man in fighting fo….
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….
Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene..
Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power..
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge..
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..
On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several..
Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've finished what I've u….