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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.

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
The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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Different Modesty Oneself Strength Time
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Achievement Color Form Full Rich
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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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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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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Figure Form Himself Learning Nature Painting Simplicity
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Change Day People Soul Thinking
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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Pleasure must be found in study.
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Finding Happiness Oneself Study
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 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
Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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Expression Heart Logic Possible
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

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