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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.

Paul Cezanne

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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Impression Nature Paint Realization Sensation Subject
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Art Eyes God Myself
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Eyes Feature Mindset Paint Support
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
Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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Cylinder Direction Nature Point Prospective Treat
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Appearance Hurry See Yourself
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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Appearance Myself Nature Progress Reveal Slow
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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Light Love Misery Oneself Side
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
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Gratitude Intelligence Myself

You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.

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