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Nature is the best instructor.

Paul Cezanne

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Era God Preparation Study
All the theories mess you up inside.
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Mess Theory Yourself
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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
Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Difficult Paint Thinking Yourself
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
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
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
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
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time
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
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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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
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Achievement Color Form Full Rich
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.
PAUL CEZANNE
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Astonishment Myself One Liner
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
Pleasure must be found in study.
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Finding Happiness Oneself Study
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
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 the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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Bury Generosity Ideas Life Oneself Youth
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Gratitude Intelligence Myself
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Age Comfortable Conquer Finding Ourselves Prayer Religion

Nature is the best instructor.

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