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
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.