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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

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
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Abstraction Color Drawing Nature Pure
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
All the theories mess you up inside.
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Mess Theory Yourself
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
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
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
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
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
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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Goodness Photograph Studio Willing

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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