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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.

Paul Cezanne

Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
I allow no one to touch me.
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Allow Myself Touch
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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Discover Myself Nature Representation Reproduction Satisfaction Sun
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
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
All the theories mess you up inside.
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Mess Theory Yourself
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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Mystery Sensation Source Translation Try
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Age Comfortable Conquer Finding Ourselves Prayer Religion
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
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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Experience Inspirational Paint Wisdom
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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Lost Myself One Liner Think
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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I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself Thinking

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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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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