Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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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.
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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