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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.

Paul Cezanne

Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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Direction Nature Perspective Plane Point Proper Treat
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
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
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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I want to die painting.
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Death One Liner Paint
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Achievement Color Form Full Rich
You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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Bury Generosity Ideas Life Oneself Youth
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
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
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Discover Doubt Himself Nature Open See Success Way
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
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
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Harmony Object Paint Relationship

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