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

Paul Cezanne

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
Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Color Light Representation Reproduction
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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Beautiful Formula Memories Nature Ourselves Study
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
I allow no one to touch me.
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Allow Myself Touch
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Myself Understand World
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Appearance Hurry See Yourself
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Discover Doubt Himself Nature Open See Success Way
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
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Alive Focus Life Paint
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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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
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
A puny body weakens the soul.
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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
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
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself

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