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

Paul Cezanne

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 must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Artist Paint See Unfold
Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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Figure Form Himself Learning Nature Painting Simplicity
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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Brilliant Color Light Shadow Tone
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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Expression Heart Logic Possible
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
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
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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Beautiful Formula Memories Nature Ourselves Study
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Age Comfortable Conquer Finding Ourselves Prayer Religion
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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Mystery Sensation Source Translation Try
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Blank Empty Fine Stand Terrible

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

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