50 quotes found
Painter · French · 1840–1926
French painter (1840–1926)
“I want to paint the way a bird sings.”
“I must have flowers, always and always.”
“My life has been nothing but a failure.”
“I must have flowers, always, and always.”
“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece”
“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers”
“Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.”
“What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.”
“I would like to paint the way a bird sings.”
“I dont think Im made for any earthly kind of pleasure.”
“My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.”
“Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.”
“I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.”
“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”
“People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.”
“I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.”
“I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.”