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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

Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Company Goodness
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
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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Art Beginning Craft End Feeling Objective Principle
Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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Direction Nature Perspective Plane Point Proper Treat
All the theories mess you up inside.
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Mess Theory Yourself
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
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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Art Artist Different Goodness Professional
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
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
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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Impression Nature Paint Realization Sensation Subject
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Enough Eyes Need Thinking Yourself
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Gratitude Intelligence Myself
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Harmony Object Paint Relationship

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