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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

Paul Cezanne

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Harmony Object Paint Relationship
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Artist Paint See Unfold
A puny body weakens the soul.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
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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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
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
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
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
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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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
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Change Day People Soul Thinking
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

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