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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.

Paul Cezanne

Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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Emotion Essential Experience Expression Knowledge
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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
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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Cylinder Direction Nature Point Prospective Treat
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Artist Paint See Unfold
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
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
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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Himself Painting Word Work
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
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
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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Distant Fertilizer Lazy Life Myself Sound Sun
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
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.

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