But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Nature engenders the science of painting.
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.
Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.