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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.

Paul Cezanne

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Abstraction Color Drawing Nature Pure
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Art Eyes God Myself
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
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
Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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Direct Imitation Master Preference Willing Yourself
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
See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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Light Love Misery Oneself Side
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted 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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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

I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.

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