Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
There is no model, there is only color.
Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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.
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn't it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art must render the thrill of her permanence, along with her elements, the appearance of all her changes. It must give us a taste of her Eternity.
I want to die painting.
Time and reflection... modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
The contour eludes me.
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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.
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw... When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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