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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.

Paul Cezanne

All the theories mess you up inside.
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Mess Theory Yourself
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Discover Doubt Himself Nature Open See Success Way
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
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength
Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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Breathe Color Innocent Moments Myself Photograph Rain World
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
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
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking
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
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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Age Destroy Hard Illusion Myself Realization Sensible Willing
The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Myself Understand World
I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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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