Nature is the best instructor.
PAUL CEZANNEMichelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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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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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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