Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.
I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth.
I paint as if I were Rothschild.
My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going.
Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist.
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
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.
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.
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