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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.

Paul Cezanne

It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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Flow Impossible Thinking Time
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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Mystery Sensation Source Translation Try
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
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
Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
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
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
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
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Company Goodness
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
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
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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Expression Heart Logic Possible
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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Art Era God Preparation Study
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Astonishment Myself One Liner
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting

Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.

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