The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.
I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... But I don't seem to have a single real friend!
I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
God, the king of artists, was clumsy.
The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible
I've spent my life making blunders.
Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."
How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?
One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.
If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.
Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.
About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw.
And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.
It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another.The pointof view isnotthesame, anymorethan are the tools, the ideals, the needs, or the painters' techniques.
If the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled workers trained in the technique of their craft, nothing could be done with them if they had no ideal.
I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.
With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.
Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do.
Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!
I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn.Why not 'meat'whilethey're about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation.
It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
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