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To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.”
I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.”
The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.”
We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
“If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.”
“I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable…. But I don’t seem to have a single real friend!”
With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today... what they did was sounder.
It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it.
Paint with joy – with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
I need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that.
One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
You come to nature with all your theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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