I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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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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Nature is the best instructor.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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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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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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