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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

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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Cylinder Direction Nature Point Prospective Treat
I want to die painting.
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Death One Liner Paint
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
Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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Art Color Design Draw Rich Separate
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
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Gratitude Intelligence Myself
All the theories mess you up inside.
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Mess Theory Yourself
Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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Finding Happiness Oneself Study
Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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Artist Construction Fall Greatness Himself Limitation Rival
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
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
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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Brilliant Color Light Shadow Tone
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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Art Beginning Craft End Feeling Objective Principle

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.

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