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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

Paul Cezanne

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
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
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
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Color Draw Expression Literature Painting Perception Sensation Style
I want to die painting.
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Death One Liner Paint
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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
If I think, everything is lost.
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Lost Myself One Liner Think
Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Absract Art Drawing
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
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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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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Different Modesty Oneself Strength Time
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

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