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

Paul Cezanne

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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Himself Painting Word Work
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
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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
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
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
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
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Difficult Paint Thinking Yourself
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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Distant Fertilizer Lazy Life Myself Sound Sun
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Discover Doubt Himself Nature Open See Success Way
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
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking

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