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

Paul Cezanne

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
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Add Link Oneself Past Substitute
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Art Eyes God Myself
Pleasure must be found in study.
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Finding Happiness Oneself Study
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
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
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
You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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Bury Generosity Ideas Life Oneself Youth
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
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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Age Destroy Hard Illusion Myself Realization Sensible Willing
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Eyes Feature Mindset Paint Support
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.
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Discover Myself Nature Representation Reproduction Satisfaction Sun
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time

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