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Pastellist Inspirational Quotes (94)

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I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.
Camille Pissarro
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Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human beings in real life painting is more about the extreme moments when speech doesn't help anymore.
Francesco Clemente
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It is the brushwork of the right value and color which should produce the drawing.
Camille Pissarro
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The outcome of my days is always the same an infinite desire for what one never gets a void one cannot fill an utter yearning to produce in all ways, to battle as much as possible against time that drags us along, and the distractions that throw a veil over our soul.
Eugene Delacroix
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It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!
Camille Pissarro
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If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.
Eugene Delacroix
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Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.
Eugene Delacroix
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Commonplace people have an answer for everything and nothing ever surprises them. They try to look as though they knew what you were about to say better than you did yourself, and when it is their turn to speak, they repeat with great assurance something that they have heard other people say, as though it were their own invention.
Eugene Delacroix
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I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure.
Eugene Delacroix
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All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.
Eugene Delacroix
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The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.
Odilon Redon
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What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
Eugene Delacroix
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There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold blooded movie and find poetry in it.
Francesco Clemente
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When you sit for an hour and a half in front of somebody, he or she shows about twenty faces. And so it's this crazy chase of, Which face? Which one is the one?
Francesco Clemente
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Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
Camille Pissarro
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We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.
Eugene Delacroix
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Do all the work you can that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
Eugene Delacroix
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One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.
Eugene Delacroix
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Cover the canvas at the first go, and then work on till you see nothing more to add ... Don't proceed according to rules and principles, but paint what you observe and feel. Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.
Camille Pissarro
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My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.
Francesco Clemente
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When a thing bores you, do not do it.
Eugene Delacroix
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When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.
Camille Pissarro
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