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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.

Paul Cezanne

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
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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Appearance Myself Nature Progress Reveal Slow
The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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Different Modesty Oneself Strength Time
Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Art Eyes Material Optics Ourselves Thinking
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
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
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
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
All the theories mess you up inside.
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Mess Theory Yourself
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Appearance Hurry See Yourself
A puny body weakens the soul.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Color Draw Expression Literature Painting Perception Sensation Style

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