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"I want to die painting."
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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."
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"My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me."
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"Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones."
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"For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations."
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"Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left."
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"I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs."
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"It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away."
Time

"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."
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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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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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"I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings."
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"He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting."
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"My painting does not come from the easel."
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"I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting."
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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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"Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy."
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"If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph."
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"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour."
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