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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.

Paul Cezanne

There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Artist Different Goodness Professional
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
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
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
Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Difficult Paint Thinking Yourself
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking
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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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
I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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Beginning Company Goodness Maturity Myself Opinion Reach Strong
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.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Enough Eyes Need Thinking Yourself
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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Himself Painting Word Work
Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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Artist Construction Fall Greatness Himself Limitation Rival
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
I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Myself Paint Truth Yourself

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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