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Eugène Boudin

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“Nature is richer than I represent it.. .Nature is so beautiful that when I am not tortured by poverty I am tortured by her splendor. How fortunate we are to be able to see and admire the glories of the sky and earth; if only I could be content just to admire them. But there is always the torment of struggling to reproduce them, the impossibility of creating anything within the narrow limits of painting.”
Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) first seen 1854 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from Boudin's Journal, March 1854; as cited in Eugène Boudin, G. Jean-Aubrey & Robert Schmit, Greenwich, New York graphic society, 1968, p. 24
“To swim in the open sky. To achieve the tenderness of clouds. To suspend these masses in the distance, very far away in the grey mist, make the blue explode. I feel all this coming, dawning in my intentions. What joy and what torment! If the bottom were still, perhaps I would never reach these depths. Did they do better in the past? Did the Dutch achieve the poetry of clouds I seek? That tenderness of the sky which even extends to admiration, to worship: it is no exaggeration.”
Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) first seen 1856 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diary-note of Boudin, 3 December, 1856; as cited in the description of his painting 'Sky, Setting Sun, Bushes in Foreground', by the Muma-museum, Le Havre
“Imagine an immense plain.. ..in the middle, a small Gothic chapel surrounded by trees.. ..around that a hundred tents made of white canvas.. ..in open-air kitchens huge pots of boiling soup, incredible ragouts..”
Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) first seen 1857 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Boudin in a letter to his brother, 1857; as cited in the descritption of 'The Pardon of Saint-Anne-La-Palud' by the Met-museum]
“They [the holiday-visitors near Le Havre] love my little ladies [paintings] on the beach, and some people say that there's a thread of gold to exploit there.”
Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) first seen 1863 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote in Boudin's letter to family-friend Ferdinand Martin, from Paris, 12 February 1863; as cited by Colin B. Bailey in The Annenberg Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-impressionism, publisher, Metropo…
“I shall do other things, but I will always be the painter of beaches.”
Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) first seen 1865 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from Boudin's letter to his brother, 1865; as cited inBoudin, Lady in white on the beach of Trouville
“I have a confession to make. When I came back to.. ..the beach at Trouville.. ..it seeemed nothing more than than a frightful masquerade.. ..If you have passed one month among the people condemned to hard work in the fields, with black bread and water, and you then find that gang of golden parasites with such a triumphant air, you can't help feeling a bit of pity.. ..Fortunately, dear friend, the Creator has spread a little of his splendid and warming light everywhere, and what I reproduce is not so much this world as the element that envelops it.”
Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote in Boudin's letter to Ferdinand Martin, 28 August 1867; as cited in exh. text; 'Eugène Boudin', ed. Christoph Bode, Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, July 2013
“The peasants have their painters, Millet, Jaque, Breton; and that is a good thing.. ..Well and good: but between you and me, the bourgeois walking along the jetty towards the sunset, has just as much right to be caught on canvas, 'to be brought to the light'.. .They too are often resting after a day's hard work, these people who come from their offices and from behind their desks.. .There's a serious and irrefutable argument.”
Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) first seen 1868 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from Bonnard's letter to Ferdinand Martin, 3 September 1868; as cited in Eugène Boudin, G. Jean-Aubry with Robert Schmit - trans. Caroline Tisdall. Greenwich, Conn., New York Graphic Society, 1968, p. 72
“I dare not think of the sun-drenched beaches and the stormy skies, and of the joy of painting them in the sea breezes.”
Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) first seen 1869 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote in a letter, from Paris 14 June 1869, to family-friend Ferdinand Martin; as cited by Colin B. Bailey in The Annenberg Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-impressionism, publisher, Metropolitan Museu…
“When I got back [from Le Havre], where I had made several sketches of the harbour exit, I thought of placing the sun in the background. I liked the picture so much that I painted it ten times over, with its three-master and its sun.”
Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) first seen 1882 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from Boudin's letter, 1882; as cited in the article 'Artists around Monet, Muma-museum, Le Havre
“I exhaust myself terribly to content the world, and never manage to content myself.”
Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) first seen 1890 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Boudin's note, c. 1890; as cited in G. Jean-Aubry & Robert Schmit, Eugène Boudin, Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1968, p. 115
“I am obsessed with the idea of leaving. I must travel, for that would probably relax me.”
Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) first seen 1890 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from Boudin's Journal, c. 1890; as cited in G. Jean-Aubry & Robert Schmit, Eugène Boudin, Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1968, p. 21
“I regret I no longer have the years of youth needed to create a beautiful series of views of this place, which would in any case be rather difficult to paint due to the monuments, which require a good draughtsmanship and long stays in the city, like Ziem used to do in the past.”
Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) first seen 1893 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Boudin from Venice, c. 1893-94; as cited in 'Venice, The Grand Canal', by Anne-Marie Bergeret-Gourbin, Museo Thyssen
“I think I will go back to mahogany [wood, as layer for his paintings], the only stable wood, together with old oak. But mahogany is so heavy. And it has another drawback, it blackens even through the primers if they are not thick enough and applied in several coats.”
Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) first seen 1869 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from Boudin's letter in 1894; as cited in 'Figures on the Beach in Trouville, 1869', by Anne-Marie Bergeret-Gourbin, Museo Thyssen
“[Venice is] somewhat disguised by the artists who usually paint Venice, who have disfigured it by turning it into a city heated by the brightest and hottest sun. On the contrary, Venice, like all luminous cities, has a grey hue, the atmosphere is mild and misty and the sky arrays itself with clouds, just like the sky of our Norman and Dutch regions.”
Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Boudin's letter, from Venice, 1895; to art-dealer Durand-Ruel; as cited in 'Venice, The Grand Canal' 1895, by Anne-Marie Bergeret-Gourbin, Museo Thyssen
“I find my work increasingly more straining, in particular since I have been trying to finish my studies outside.”
Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from Boudin's letter to his friend Braquaval, 1 March 1895; as cited in 'The River Touques at Saint-Arnoult, 1895', by Anne-Marie Bergeret-Gourbin, Museo Thyssen
“..my trip to Venice [during 1895] will have been my swansong.”
Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Boudin's confession to his friend Braquaval, May 1896; as cited in 'Venice, The Grand Canal' 1895, by Anne-Marie Bergeret-Gourbin, Museo Thyssen
“Everything that is painted directly and on the spot always has strength, a power, and a vivacity of touch one cannot recover in the studio.. .Three strokes of the brush in front of nature are worth more than two days of work at the easel [in the studio].”
Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) said by 1898 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from Boudin's sketchbook; as quoted in Boudin at Trouville, by Vivien Hamilton, exh. Catalogue, London John Murray Ltd., 1992, p. 16
“I am a loner, a daydreamer who has been content to remain in his part of the world and look at the sky. The future will treat me as it does all of us. I am very much afraid it may be oblivion.”
Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) said by 1898 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Boudin, as cited by Dalya Alberge, in 'Life's a beach: Boudin...' in 'Independent online', 9 February 1993
“[I have] done various series of seascapes in different genres, beaches which demonstrated if not great art at least a reasonably faithful reproduction of the people of our age.”
Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) said by 1898 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Boudin, as cited by Dalya Alberge, in 'Life's a beach: Boudin...' in 'Independent online', 9 February 1993
“I have too often contented myself with being a hasty improviser: I have spent too much time exploring fleeting effects of the sky and sea.”
Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) said by 1898 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source