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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.

Paul Cezanne

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
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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Expression Need Painting Public Temperature
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
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
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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Chaos Human Live Myself Photograph Thinking
Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
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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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Alive Focus Life Paint
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
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model

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