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

Paul Cezanne

I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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Beginning Company Goodness Maturity Myself Opinion Reach Strong
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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Art Brief Define Myself Nature Soul Word
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Astonishment Myself One Liner
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
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
Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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Breathe Color Innocent Moments Myself Photograph Rain World
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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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Art Eyes God Myself
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
If I think, everything is lost.
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Lost Myself One Liner Think
A puny body weakens the soul.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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Expression Need Painting Public Temperature
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
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time

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