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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

Paul Cezanne

An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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Art Beginning Craft End Feeling Objective Principle
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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Beginning Company Goodness Maturity Myself Opinion Reach Strong
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
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
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
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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Disappear Hurry See Yourself
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Art Eyes God Myself
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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Art Artist Different Goodness Professional
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Alive Focus Life Paint
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
If I think, everything is lost.
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Lost Myself One Liner Think

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