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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.

Paul Cezanne

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
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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Alone Color Confirm Logic Myself Painting
Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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Disappear Hurry See Yourself
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
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Appearance Hurry See Yourself
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Art Eyes God Myself
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
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
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Astonishment Myself One Liner
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
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
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
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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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Artist Paint See Unfold
I want to die painting.
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Death One Liner Paint
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
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
Pleasure must be found in study.
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Finding Happiness Oneself Study
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
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
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
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time

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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