Occupation: Artist Birth: February 25, 1841 Death: December 3, 1919
We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators..
White does not exist in nature..
There isn't a single person or landscape or subject which doesn't possess some interest, although it may not be immediately apparent. When a painter ….
I have no rules and no methods... no secrets..
If the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled workers trained in the technique of their craft, nothing could be done with them if t….
You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat..
I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall..
The most important element in a picture cannot be defined..
Everybody has their reasons..
If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all o….
And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums..
You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time..
The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the curren….
What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot himself that I found [back] in the museum of Naple….
I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw..
In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come t….
I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to a….
Why should beauty be suspect?.
He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci].
I've spent my life making blunders..
To express himself well, the artist should be hidden. The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done for. The only salvation is to w….