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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

Paul Cezanne

Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Absract Art Drawing
Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
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
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Add Link Oneself Past Substitute
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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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Company Goodness
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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Bury Generosity Ideas Life Oneself Youth
Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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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
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
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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Brilliant Color Light Shadow Tone
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Artist Paint See Unfold
Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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Art Artist Choice Combination Depend Fiction Painting Technique

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