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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.

Paul Cezanne

Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
PAUL CEZANNE

Color Draw Expression Literature Painting Perception Sensation Style
I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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Discover Myself Nature Representation Reproduction Satisfaction Sun
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Appearance Hurry See Yourself
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
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
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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Art Brief Define Myself Nature Soul Word
Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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Art Color Design Draw Rich Separate
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Enough Eyes Need Thinking Yourself
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Evidence Nature Oneself Truth
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
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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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
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

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