I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
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An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
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Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
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My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility. Inspired by certain pages of Delacroix, an artist like Signac is preoccupied with complementary colors, and the t
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A distinction is made between painters who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Personally, I think neither of these methods must be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Both may be used in turn by the same indivi
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My curves are not crazy.
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