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

Paul Cezanne

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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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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Disappear Hurry See 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
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Myself Understand World
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
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
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
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
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
Pleasure must be found in study.
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Finding Happiness Oneself Study

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