“I do not paint by copying nature. Everything I do springs from my wild imagination.”Tagged: Painting, Art, Originality, Making Art, Artistic Expression
“Freely and madly; you will make progress... Above all, don't sweat over a painting; a great sentiment can be rendered immediately... Don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amide nature, extrapolate art from it and concentrate on what you will create as a result.”Tagged: Free, Progress, Painting, Art, Abstract
“In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.”Tagged: Creativity, Source, Art, Making Art
“In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State takes it over?”Tagged: Art, Plagiarism, Revolutionary
“I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet, to be rid of the influence of civilization. I want only to do simple, very simple art, and to be able to do that, I have to immerse myself in virgin nature, see no one but savages, live their life, with no other thought in mind but to render, the way a…”Tagged: Peace, influence, Art, Making Art, Creativity
“Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means.”Tagged: Nature, Mystery, Infinities, Imagination, Art
“A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.”Tagged: Sentinment, Dream On, Form, expression, Art
“Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at the will of his imagination, and at a glance have his soul invaded by the most profound memories, no efforts of memory, everything summed up in one moment. Complete art which…”Tagged: Painting, Art, romance, Imagination
“Many people say that I don't know how to draw because I don't draw particular forms. When will they understand that execution, drawing and color (in other words, style) must be in harmony with the poem?”Tagged: drawing, Form, expression, execution, harmony
“This Cézanne, that you ask me for is a pearl of exceptional quality and I already have refused three hundred francs for it; it is one of my most treasured possessions, and except in absolute necessity, I would give up my last shirt before the picture.”Tagged: Art, Possesions, Price, Quality