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

Paul Cezanne

The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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Different Modesty Oneself Strength Time
All the theories mess you up inside.
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Mess Theory Yourself
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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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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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
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
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
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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Beginning Company Goodness Maturity Myself Opinion Reach Strong
A puny body weakens the soul.
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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
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 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
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
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
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Astonishment Myself One Liner
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
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
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
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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Art Color Design Draw Rich Separate
I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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Discover Myself Nature Representation Reproduction Satisfaction Sun
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
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation

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

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