If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.
I have never been much of a painter.
If I didn't choose art, I would have become an astronomer.
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.
Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.
Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.
The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.