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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.

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
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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Age Destroy Hard Illusion Myself Realization Sensible Willing
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
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.
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Absract Art Drawing
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
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Appearance Hurry See Yourself
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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Art Color Design Draw Rich Separate
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
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
Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Alive Focus Life Paint

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