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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.

Paul Cezanne

Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Difficult Paint Thinking Yourself
A puny body weakens the soul.
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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
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
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Enough Eyes Need Thinking Yourself
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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Alone Color Confirm Logic Myself Painting
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
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
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 am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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Animate Color Intense Nature Rich
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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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

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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