It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.
All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work.
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
Pleasure must be found in study.
I want to die painting.
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
When I start thinking, all is lost.
I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
The contour eludes me.
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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