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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.

Paul Cezanne

Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNE

Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNE
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
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
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
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 am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
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
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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Art Artist Different Goodness Professional
Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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Flow Impossible Thinking Time
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Achievement Color Form Full Rich
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
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
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

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