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Pastellist Inspirational Quotes (94)

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Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas.
Eugene Delacroix
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There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the highest point in his work: what he does is done - through and through when he paints eyes, they are lit with the fire of life.
Eugene Delacroix
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
Camille Pissarro
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Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you, and you do not need a host of such spirits. Is not that all an artist should wish for?
Camille Pissarro
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I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased.
Odilon Redon
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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
Camille Pissarro
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In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.
Eugene Delacroix
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The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for that, you must acquire facility, furnish one's memory to the point of infinitude, and make numerous drawings after the old masters.
Eugene Delacroix
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I think when one has talent one finally breaks through so don't pass up any opportunity to do some work.
Camille Pissarro
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I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!
Camille Pissarro
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And dilettantism is a humorous way to survive. Everybody understands you for it and everybody hates you for it. And not everybody chooses to be a dilettante. Many choose cunning and brute force.
Francesco Clemente
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Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.
Odilon Redon
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A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.
Eugene Delacroix
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Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.
Eugene Delacroix
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In India and in New York the economy is naked. People are starving physically in India, and emotionally in New York.
Francesco Clemente
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The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.
Odilon Redon
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One must learn to be grateful for one's own findings.
Eugene Delacroix
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Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.
Eugene Delacroix
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Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
Max Jacob
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Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.
Camille Pissarro
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Don't be afraid of putting on color, refine the work little by little.
Camille Pissarro
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The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.
Eugene Delacroix
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To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we all participate in.
Francesco Clemente
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One must respect black. Nothing prostitutes it.
Odilon Redon
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