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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.

Paul Cezanne

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
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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Breathe Color Innocent Moments Myself Photograph Rain World
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
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.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
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNE
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 from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
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
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Gratitude Intelligence Myself
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

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