Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
PAUL CEZANNE
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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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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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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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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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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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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If I think, everything is lost.
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