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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.

Paul Cezanne

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Change Day People Soul Thinking
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Abstraction Color Drawing Nature Pure
Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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Disappear Hurry See Yourself
The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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Chaos Human Live Myself Photograph Thinking
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
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Appearance Hurry See Yourself
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
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
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
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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Direction Nature Perspective Plane Point Proper Treat
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
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.
PAUL CEZANNE
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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Experience Inspirational Paint Wisdom
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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Art Artist Different Goodness Professional
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself Thinking

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