A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment.
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique - all these are in the middle.
It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.
Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color.
Everything is about to disappear. You've got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
All the theories mess you up inside.
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate...Give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.
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