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What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.
There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.
One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .
Purity of soul and impurity of body can go together.
A woman is not old as long as she loves and is loved
Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.
It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.
You have to first experience what you want to express
One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.
You have first to experience what you want to express.
If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.
Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?
At times it is not easy for me to take up living again.
The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all.
A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.
The great isn't something accidental; it must be willed.
It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.
In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.
Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.
Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.
It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.
No, no thought to the winnings. One loves because one loves.
I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.
Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.
I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away.
Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.
I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.
Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.
God sends us pieces of art so that we may see ourselves in them
Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.
There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning.
The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.
I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.
I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.
Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.
Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.
In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up.
But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.
Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.
Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.
I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it.
One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.
a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.