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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Paul Cezanne

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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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
Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Difficult Paint Thinking Yourself
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
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
I want to die painting.
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Death One Liner Paint
Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
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
Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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Disappear Hurry See Yourself
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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Appearance Myself Nature Progress Reveal Slow
Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.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
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Company Goodness
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
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

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