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

Paul Cezanne

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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Impression Nature Paint Realization Sensation Subject
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
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
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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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
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Art Eyes God Myself
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
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
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
Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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Artist Color Different Draw Form Rich Yourself
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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Brilliant Color Light Shadow Tone
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
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
Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
I want to die painting.
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Death One Liner Paint

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