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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

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
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Company Goodness
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Astonishment Myself One Liner
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Eyes Feature Mindset Paint Support
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
Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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Figure Form Himself Learning Nature Painting Simplicity
Pleasure must be found in study.
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Finding Happiness Oneself Study
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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Experience Inspirational Paint Wisdom
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
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
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
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

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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