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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

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
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
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Harmony Object Paint Relationship
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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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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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
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Artist Paint See Unfold
Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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Figure Form Himself Learning Nature Painting Simplicity
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

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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