Occupation: Artist Birth: June 7, 1848 Death: May 8, 1903
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 ….
Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas?.
I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to do simple, very simple art and to be able t….
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….
Many people say that I don't know how to draw because I don't draw particular forms. When will they understand that execution, drawing and color (in ….
The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal.
Oh mysterious world... I have become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul - a flower which has ceased to bloom and whose frag….
Art is either plagiarism or revolution..
Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it..
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?.
Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's m….
Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of..
A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man..
In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once t….
Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there..
I am a great artist and I know it. It's because of what I am that I have endured so much suffering, so as to pursue my vocation, otherwise I would co….
We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves..
Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature..
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!.
Go on working, freely and furiously, you will make progress and sooner or later your worth will be recognised, if you have any..
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters..