Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. |
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it. |
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it. |
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. |
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false |
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false |
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory. |
Monet's pictures are always too draughty for me. |
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters. |
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement. |
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things |
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things |
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things |
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. |
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. |