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"With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public."
Expression

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

"My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me."
Work

"Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones."
Shadow

"I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs."
Public

"Art is a harmony parallel with nature."
Nature

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

"The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings."
Work

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