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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

Paul Cezanne

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Abstraction Color Drawing Nature Pure
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
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
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
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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Art Era God Preparation Study
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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Experience Inspirational Paint Wisdom
Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Add Link Oneself Past Substitute
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.
PAUL CEZANNE
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start 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
Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Blank Empty Fine Stand Terrible

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