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"I want to die painting."
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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 have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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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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"Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation."
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"One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters."
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"I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky."
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"You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself."
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"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else."
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"Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't."
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"I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature."
Nature
"I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me."
Age
"Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience."
Experience
"Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see."
Observation
"I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain."
Art
"Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre."
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"The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings."
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"It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away."
Time
"For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations."
Nature
"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."
Art
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