What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
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Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you. The greatest happiness is to reveal it to others, to study oneself, to paint oneself continually in one's work.
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Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.
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Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.
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A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.
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The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings.
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The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
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The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for that, you must acquire facility, furnish one's memory to the point of infinitude, and make numerous drawings after the old masters.
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The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.
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The sea a dark greenish blue like a fig.
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