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If I think, everything is lost.

Paul Cezanne

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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Beautiful Formula Memories Nature Ourselves Study
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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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
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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Lost Myself One Liner Think
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Company Goodness
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
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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Appearance Myself Nature Progress Reveal Slow
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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Art Artist Different Goodness Professional
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Art Eyes God Myself
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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
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
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
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
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
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Harmony Object Paint Relationship
I allow no one to touch me.
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Allow Myself Touch
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching

If I think, everything is lost.

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