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.
I allow no one to touch me.
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 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.
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
In order to make progress, there is only nature, and the eye is turned through contact with her.
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.
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art - and this sense is doubtless the horror of the bourgeois.
I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
I wish to die painting.
Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles.
The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.
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