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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.

Paul Cezanne

Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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Expression Heart Logic Possible
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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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
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Age Comfortable Conquer Finding Ourselves Prayer Religion
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
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Company Goodness
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Color Light Representation Reproduction
Pleasure must be found in study.
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Finding Happiness Oneself Study
Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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Artist Construction Fall Greatness Himself Limitation Rival
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Astonishment Myself One Liner
Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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Art Color Design Draw Rich Separate
It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Blank Empty Fine Stand Terrible

Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.

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