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There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.

Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

I have no rules and no methods ... no secrets.

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

It's with my brush that I make love.

The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.

They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.

I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.

I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver.

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.

I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.

With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.

The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.

In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.

The more they measure, the more they realize how much the Greeks departed from regular and banal lines in order to produce their effect.

Why should beauty be suspect?

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine.
[On Leonardo Da Vinci]

I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.

Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.

If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.

It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.

Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.

The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it.

I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.

We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.

With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.

Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.

I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.

Everybody has their reasons.

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

-last words about painting, age 78 ...
I think I'm beginning to learn something about it.

There's nothing more absurd than a connoisseur.

Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period.

I've spent my life making blunders.

The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.

The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.

People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance.

An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.

You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.

How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?

I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it.

Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

"The work of art must seize upon you ... carry you away."

White does not exist in nature.

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do.

I need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that.

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

God, the king of artists, was clumsy.

To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.

I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it.

I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.

People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old masters.

Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.

The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.

There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.

The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible

My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.