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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.

Paul Cezanne

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Discover Doubt Himself Nature Open See Success Way
Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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Mystery Sensation Source Translation Try
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Art Eyes God Myself
Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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Artist Color Different Draw Form Rich Yourself
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Appearance Hurry See Yourself
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
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 owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Myself Paint Truth Yourself
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
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
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

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