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Georges Rouault

"The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas."

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"The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas."

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"I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart."

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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

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"Create with the heart, build with the mind."

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"If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle."

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"And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art."

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"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."

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"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?"

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"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."

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"Music communicates with the soul."

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"Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting."

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"The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions."
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"The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy."
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"My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted."
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"Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical."
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"Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind."
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"Often pagans, with their eyes wide open, do not see very clearly."
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"A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human."
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"For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh."
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"The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas."
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