“Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way, and nothing stays fixed.” “I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.” “Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become.” “For every joy, there is a price to be paid.” “You can’t do a painting without a drip.” “The best and shortest road towards knowledge of truth is Nature.” “The only way to understand painting is to go and look at it.Īnd if out of a million visitors, there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.” “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” Origin, and culture are like a tree without roots.” “A people without knowledge of their past history, Museums, like theatres and libraries, are a means to freedom.” “Exuberance is a good stimulus towards action, but the inner light grows in silence and concentration.”Ī country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor … “Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.” “If you search for the laws of harmony, you will find knowledge.” The essence of every picture is the frame.” It is better not to know and to know that one does not know than presumptuously to attribute some random meaning to symbols.” “What you are doing does not matter so much as what you are learning from doing it. “Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.” “Immature poets imitate mature poets steal.” “If his heart rules him, his conscience will soon take the place of the rod.” You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.” “If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. “I want to make of Impressionism an art as solid as that of the museums.” “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” The more art you see, the more you’ll learn to define your own taste.” “The best introduction to art is to stroll through a museum. The problem is how to remain an artist once you we grow up.” “The modern world thinks of art as very important: It’s not a place of artifacts it’s a place of ideas.” “A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. “Painter, you are not a speaker! Paint so and be silent!”
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