Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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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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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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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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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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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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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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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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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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