Alfred Sisley quotes
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“Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.”
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“I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.”
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“Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.”
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“The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.”
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“To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.”
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“The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.”
-- Alfred Sisley
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“The more an artist works the more there is to do.”
Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.56, Univ of California Press
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“I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be.”
Source : Claire Keegan (2010). “Foster”, p.11, Faber & Faber
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“The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.”
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“It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.”
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“It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.”
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