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Paul Cezanne

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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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
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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Distant Fertilizer Lazy Life Myself Sound Sun
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
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Astonishment Myself One Liner
Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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Figure Form Himself Learning Nature Painting Simplicity
Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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Direct Imitation Master Preference Willing Yourself
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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Art Flower God Judgment Myself Object Painting Tree
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Enough Eyes Need Thinking Yourself
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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I want to die painting.
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Death One Liner Paint
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Art Eyes God Myself
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

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