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

Paul Cezanne

A puny body weakens the soul.
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I want to die painting.
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Death One Liner Paint
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Abstraction Color Drawing Nature Pure
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Change Day People Soul Thinking
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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Alone Color Confirm Logic Myself Painting
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Company Goodness
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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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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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
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
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
I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Myself Paint Truth Yourself
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Color Draw Expression Literature Painting Perception Sensation Style
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
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
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Alive Focus Life Paint
All the theories mess you up inside.
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Mess Theory Yourself
Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Art Eyes Material Optics Ourselves Thinking

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

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