In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.
In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
I think I'm beginning to learn something about it.
If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.
You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.
It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.
The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.
In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.
I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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