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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

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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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
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
I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Myself Paint Truth Yourself
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
If I think, everything is lost.
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Lost Myself One Liner Think
I allow no one to touch me.
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Allow Myself Touch
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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Art Brief Define Myself Nature Soul Word
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
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Gratitude Intelligence Myself
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
All the theories mess you up inside.
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Mess Theory Yourself
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Discover Doubt Himself Nature Open See Success Way
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

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