by iambiguous » Sat May 25, 2019 5:57 pm
Claude Monet
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
Or [perhaps] here: To think we must forget the name of the thing we are thinking of.
When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you.
Things only artists say [and actually believe?]
All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
Things only artists say [and actually believe?]
Light is the most important person in the picture.
I'm a shadow man myself. The darker the better.
I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible.
Well short of it, I'd say.
I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
Not counting the Kids of course.