I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
PAUL CEZANNEPeople think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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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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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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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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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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