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Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter being concerned only with...
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from...
I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . ....
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation...
There is a right physical size for every idea.
Source: In Artists in Quotation, by...
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for...
Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and...
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her . . . . I perhaps owe having become a painter to...
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and...
I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain....
I would advise young artists . . . to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly ....
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same...
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at Your...
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Source: In
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and...
Genius is eternal patience.
Source: In The Book of Success, ed. Richard Shea,...
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Source: In The...
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
Source: In