Alfred Sisley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.
-- Alfred Sisley

#Artist #Spots #Fallen
I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.
-- Alfred Sisley

#Strong #Feelings #Painter
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.
-- Alfred Sisley

#Artist #Crafts #Should
The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.
-- Alfred Sisley

#Painting #Canvas #Problem
I always start a painting with the sky.
-- Alfred Sisley

#Sky #Painting
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.
-- Alfred Sisley

#Strong #Feelings #Masters
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

#Simple #Artist #Simplicity

An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
The more an artist works the more there is to do.
I've got a soft spot for true individuals.
Clean your finger before you point at my spots.
I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be.
The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.
I'd fallen in love with the devil.
It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.
It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.
Grace only exists to be fallen from.

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