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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

See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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Light Love Misery Oneself Side
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
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
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 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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If I think, everything is lost.
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Lost Myself One Liner Think
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
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
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Artist Paint See Unfold
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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Age Destroy Hard Illusion Myself Realization Sensible Willing
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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Different Modesty Oneself Strength Time

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

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