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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.

Paul Cezanne

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Art Flower God Judgment Myself Object Painting Tree
Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Absract Art Drawing
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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
Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Art Eyes Material Optics Ourselves Thinking
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Appearance Hurry See Yourself
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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Goodness Photograph Studio Willing
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Gratitude Intelligence Myself
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
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
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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Beautiful Formula Memories Nature Ourselves Study
Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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Art Artist Choice Combination Depend Fiction Painting Technique
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Add Link Oneself Past Substitute
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNE

I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.

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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.

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