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The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be...
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
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I invent nothing. I rediscover.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in...
A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
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If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their...
It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.
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I think I'm beginning to learn something about it.
Source: Renoir: An Intimate...
You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.
Source: In The Speaker's...
In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well...
I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
Source: Explaining why he still painted...
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to...
The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist...
In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably...
I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
Source: In Webster's NewWorld...
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.
Source: In...