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The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.
When I am alone, I love the wide roads. There, I have conversations with myself. My free steps move easily and my body leaves my spirit free of obstacles; it discourses, it reasons, it presses me with questions.
It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them.
I have a feeling only for shadows
The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.
It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality ... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
All my originality consists?in giving life in human fashion to beings which are impossible according to the laws of possibility.
It is nature also who orders us to obey the gifts she has given us. Mine have led me to dreams; I submitted to the torments of imagination and the surprises she gave me under my pencil; but I directed and led those surprises in accordance with the laws of the organism of art which I know, which I feel, with the single goal of producing in the spectator, by sudden attraction, the whole evocation, and the whole enticement of the uncertain within the confines of thought.
I venerate with emotion everything that comes from the heart when it is simple, silent and confident. It is a sensual pleasure, subtle and touching, to try to reach characters through the varied outer appearances of human conditions.
The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.
What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.
The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.
My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.
The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, always pliant, hypnotized by the marvels of nature which he loves, he scrutinizes. His eyes, like his soul, are in perpetual communion with the most fortuitous of phenomena.
I have tried to put the real at the service of the unreal.
I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.
Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.
