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Quote Left The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation. Quote Right
Quote Left The dead govern the living. Quote Right
Quote Left Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry... If mathematical analysis should ever had prominent place in chemistry - an aberration, which is happily almost impossible - it would be a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left Patience is also a form of action. Quote Right
Quote Left I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. Quote Right
Quote Left The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. Quote Right
Quote Left There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt ... Quote Right
Quote Left Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. Quote Right
Quote Left Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated. Quote Right
Quote Left There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect. Quote Right
Quote Left I invent nothing, I rediscover. Quote Right
Quote Left Nobody does good to man with impunity. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Quote Right
Quote Left Eh! Je suis leur chef, il fallait bien les suivre.
(Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them.)
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Quote Left To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. Quote Right
Quote Left It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks. Quote Right
Quote Left I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black. Quote Right
Quote Left I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters. Quote Right
Quote Left The pain passes. The beauty remains. Quote Right
Quote Left If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true. Quote Right