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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.