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"Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal."
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"Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed."
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"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
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"If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph."
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"The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand."
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"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
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"I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me."
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"I found I have to stay painting."
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"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
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"The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century."
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"You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself."
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"France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside."
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"I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota."
Life
"When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves."
Man
"Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things."
Art
"Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired."
Beauty
"Fine art is knowledge made visible."
Art
"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients."
Wisdom
"The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it."
Nature
"The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired."
Beauty
"Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal."
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