- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.
- Newton
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- Nov 07, 2020
I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.
- Necessary
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
More of me comes out when I improvise.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only real influence I've ever had was myself.
- Decorative
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.
- Nov 07, 2020