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

Paul Cezanne

Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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Artist Color Different Draw Form Rich Yourself
Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Color Light Representation Reproduction
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
I want to die painting.
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Death One Liner Paint
Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Add Link Oneself Past Substitute
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start 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 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
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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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
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

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