Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
For an impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
Two sittings a day of my models and I’m totally exhausted.
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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