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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.

Paul Cezanne

Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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Cylinder Direction Nature Point Prospective Treat
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Company Goodness
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
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
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
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
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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Distant Fertilizer Lazy Life Myself Sound Sun
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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Allow Myself Touch
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
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Evidence Nature Oneself Truth
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.

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