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Paul Cezanne

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Abstraction Color Drawing Nature Pure
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Art Eyes God Myself
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Art Flower God Judgment Myself Object Painting Tree
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
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 could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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Experience Inspirational Paint Wisdom
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
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
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 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 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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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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