When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made
object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read.
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist
is always subordinate to nature? Art is in harmony parallel with
nature.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought
that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's
private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually
as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure
must be found in the work.
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