Occupation: Artist Birth: October 3, 1867 Death: January 23, 1947
The expression on my face - who on earth would be interested in that? All that I have to say is to be found in my works. (On being photographed).
It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values..
Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole..
The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible..
One does not always sing out of happiness..
The painter's only solid ground is the palette and colors, but as soon as the colors achieve an illusion, they are no longer judged..
It is still color, it is not yet light..
Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be painters. An….
How many days have I spent alone with my cat... and when I say alone, I mean without a material being, for my cat is a mystical companion, a spirit..
The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world... the picture... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter where it happens t….
What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance..
It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting..
Art will never be able to exist without nature..
Art is not nature... There was a lot more to be got out of color..
What attracted me was less art itself than the artist’s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity and freedom of expression and actio….
Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings..
I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art..
The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object..
The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing..
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly..
Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it..