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“The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, always pliant, hypnotized by the marvels of nature which he loves, he scrutinizes. His eyes, like his soul, are in perpetual communion with the most fortuitous of phenomena.”

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Book:Nature and Imagination: The Work of Odilon Redon

Source: Nature and Imagination: The Work of Odilon Redon

“The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain.”

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Book:An Exhibition of Paintings, Engravings & Sculpture [by] Gauguin

Source: An Exhibition of Paintings, Engravings & Sculpture [by] Gauguin

“We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has been experienced. He freed us from all restraints which the idea of copying naturally placed on our painter's instincts. All artists are now free to express their own personality.”

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Author:Maurice Denis

“Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.”

“The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.”

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Book:Taken Care Of: An Autobiography

Source: Taken Care Of: An Autobiography