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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

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
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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Goodness Photograph Studio Willing
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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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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Bury Generosity Ideas Life Oneself Youth
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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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Alive Focus Life Paint
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
Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Art Eyes Material Optics Ourselves Thinking
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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Art Era God Preparation Study
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius

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