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Chatter about art is almost always useless.

Paul Cezanne

Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Difficult Paint Thinking Yourself
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Eyes Feature Mindset Paint Support
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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Alone Color Confirm Logic Myself Painting
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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Different Modesty Oneself Strength Time
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Art Flower God Judgment Myself Object Painting Tree
Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Absract Art Drawing
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
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Add Link Oneself Past Substitute
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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Direction Nature Perspective Plane Point Proper Treat
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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Direct Imitation Master Preference Willing Yourself

Chatter about art is almost always useless.

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