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All the theories mess you up inside.

Paul Cezanne

Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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Direct Imitation Master Preference Willing Yourself
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
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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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
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
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
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
If I think, everything is lost.
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Lost Myself One Liner Think
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
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
Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Color Light Representation Reproduction

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