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

Paul Cezanne

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
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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Art Era God Preparation Study
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
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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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
I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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Animate Color Intense Nature Rich
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
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Myself Understand World
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
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 advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time
If I think, everything is lost.
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Lost Myself One Liner Think

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