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

Paul Cezanne

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 am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
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
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Myself Understand World
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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Flow Impossible Thinking Time
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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Art Artist Different Goodness Professional
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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Goodness Photograph Studio Willing
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength
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
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Change Day People Soul Thinking
Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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Art Artist Choice Combination Depend Fiction Painting Technique
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
Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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Emotion Essential Experience Expression Knowledge
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Evidence Nature Oneself Truth

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

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