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The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something...
If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at...
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Source: In The...
Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.
Source: Attributed.
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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
Source: quoted...
Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source...
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject...
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Source: In...
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds...
I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets...
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery...
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has...
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there...
In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground...
Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an...
All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer....
You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist, I make...