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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.

Paul Cezanne

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
The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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Chaos Human Live Myself Photograph Thinking
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Astonishment Myself One Liner
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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Appearance Myself Nature Progress Reveal Slow
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Gratitude Intelligence Myself
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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Change Reflection Time Understand
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
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
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Enough Eyes Need Thinking Yourself
Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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Figure Form Himself Learning Nature Painting Simplicity
A puny body weakens the soul.
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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
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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Himself Painting Word Work
Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
PAUL CEZANNE

An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.

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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.

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