black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.

Paul Cezanne

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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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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Impression Nature Paint Realization Sensation Subject
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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Breathe Color Innocent Moments Myself Photograph Rain World
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Achievement Color Form Full Rich
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
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
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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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Experience Inspirational Paint Wisdom
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 owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.

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