We live in a rainbow of chaos.
PAUL CEZANNEMichelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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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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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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