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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.

Paul Cezanne

Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Company Goodness
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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Cylinder Direction Nature Point Prospective Treat
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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Animate Color Intense Nature Rich
Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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Artist Construction Fall Greatness Himself Limitation Rival
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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Brilliant Color Light Shadow Tone
Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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Art Artist Choice Combination Depend Fiction Painting Technique
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Age Comfortable Conquer Finding Ourselves Prayer Religion
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Achievement Color Form Full Rich
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.

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