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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

Paul Cezanne

There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
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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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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Emotion Essential Experience Expression Knowledge
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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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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Expression Need Painting Public Temperature
Pleasure must be found in study.
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Finding Happiness Oneself Study
If I think, everything is lost.
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Lost Myself One Liner Think
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
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
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
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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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
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
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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Flow Impossible Thinking Time
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

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