Occupation: Artist Birth: June 7, 1848 Death: May 8, 1903
You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind..
Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself..
My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me..
There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour..
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite..
Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at the will of his imagina….
I have tried to establish the right to dare everything..
And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while paintin….
Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them..