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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.

Paul Cezanne

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
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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Artist Color Different Draw Form Rich Yourself
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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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Change Day People Soul Thinking
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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Breathe Color Innocent Moments Myself Photograph Rain World
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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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
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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Age Destroy Hard Illusion Myself Realization Sensible Willing
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

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