One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction.
Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.
I have sworn to die painting.
It is necessary to introduce light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, and a sufficient amount of blues, to obtain an airy feeling.
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
To achieve progress nature alone counts, and the eye is trained through contact with her. It becomes concentric by looking and working.
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
I allow no one to touch me.
I should have wished to possess the intellectual equilibrium that characterizes you and permits you to achieve without fail the desired end... Chance has not favoured me with an equal self-assurance, it is the only regret I have about things of this earth.
In order to make progress, there is only nature, and the eye is turned through contact with her.
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth more than the Ecole's everlasting slices of buttered bread, that tobacco-juice painting, slavishly done by the book? The day is coming when a single original carrot will give birth to a revolution.
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front.
The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature.
See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.
My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
I wish to die painting.
Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist.
The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so often causes a painting to deviate from its true path - the concrete study of nature - to lose itself all too long in intangible speculations.
The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work.
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