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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

Paul Cezanne

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
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Achievement Color Form Full Rich
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Gratitude Intelligence Myself
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.
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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
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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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
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
Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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Expression Heart Logic Possible
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Color Draw Expression Literature Painting Perception Sensation Style
The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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Different Modesty Oneself Strength Time
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
With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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Expression Need Painting Public Temperature

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