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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.

Paul Cezanne

There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Artist Different Goodness Professional
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Alive Focus Life Paint
Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
PAUL CEZANNE

Direct Imitation Master Preference Willing Yourself
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
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
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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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
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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Light Love Misery Oneself Side
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
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Enough Eyes Need Thinking Yourself
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
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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Chaos Human Live Myself Photograph Thinking
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.

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