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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.

Paul Cezanne

Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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Emotion Essential Experience Expression Knowledge
I want to die painting.
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Death One Liner Paint
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Change Day People Soul Thinking
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Color Draw Expression Literature Painting Perception Sensation Style
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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Mystery Sensation Source Translation Try
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
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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Allow Myself Touch
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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Distant Fertilizer Lazy Life Myself Sound Sun
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
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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Impression Nature Paint Realization Sensation Subject
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

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