Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French painter Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin.

Last updated on December 23, 2024.

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life, and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities. Carefully balanced composition, soft diffusion of light, and granular impasto characterize his work.

French - Painter | November 2, 1699 - December 6, 1779

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Who told you that one paints with colors? One makes use of colors, but one paints with emotions.

Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts.

Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

You can be sure that most of the high positions in the country would be empty if one were admitted only after an examination as severe as the one we painters must pass.

Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

One makes use of pigments, but one paints with one's feelings.

Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

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