Quotes About Art

Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing one's sensations.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed [in a painting], will set off a revolution.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

Taste is the best judge, but it is rare. Art is accessible only to a very small number of individuals.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

You say a new era in art is preparing you sensed it coming continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

L'eau changée en vin, le monde changée en peinture. »

L'eau changée en vin, le monde changé en peinture. »

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

I paint as I see, as I feel...They also feel and see like me, but they don't dare...I dare.

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors.

There is nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even when he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature