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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.

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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Art Beginning Craft End Feeling Objective Principle
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Art Eyes God Myself
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Astonishment Myself One Liner
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
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
Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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Artist Construction Fall Greatness Himself Limitation Rival
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Art Flower God Judgment Myself Object Painting Tree
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
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
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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