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

Paul Cezanne

Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
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
Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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Artist Construction Fall Greatness Himself Limitation Rival
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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Bury Generosity Ideas Life Oneself Youth
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
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
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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If I think, everything is lost.
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Lost Myself One Liner Think
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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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
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
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
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Color Draw Expression Literature Painting Perception Sensation Style
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Company Goodness
Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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Emotion Essential Experience Expression Knowledge
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
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
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
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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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
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
A puny body weakens the soul.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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Finding Happiness Oneself Study
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

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