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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.

Paul Cezanne

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
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
Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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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
Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Abstraction Color Drawing Nature Pure
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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
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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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Color Light Representation Reproduction
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Art Eyes God Myself
I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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Beginning Company Goodness Maturity Myself Opinion Reach Strong
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
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

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