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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Paul Cezanne

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Brief Define Myself Nature Soul Word
Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Absract Art Drawing
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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Alone Color Confirm Logic Myself Painting
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Talk Wasted Time
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNE
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
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
Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
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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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
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Discover Doubt Himself Nature Open See Success Way
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
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
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
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

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