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

Paul Cezanne

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Artist Paint See Unfold
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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Brilliant Color Light Shadow Tone
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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Animate Color Intense Nature Rich
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
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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Himself Painting Word Work
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Appearance Hurry See Yourself
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Difficult Paint Thinking Yourself
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Achievement Color Form Full Rich

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

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