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Nature is the best instructor.

Paul Cezanne

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
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 more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNE
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
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
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
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
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Myself Paint Truth Yourself
Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Enough Eyes Need Thinking Yourself
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
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
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

Nature is the best instructor.

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