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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

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
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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Figure Form Himself Learning Nature Painting Simplicity
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Add Link Oneself Past Substitute
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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Appearance Myself Nature Progress Reveal Slow
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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Light Love Misery Oneself Side
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
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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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
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
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

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