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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

Paul Cezanne

I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
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
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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Beautiful Formula Memories Nature Ourselves Study
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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Animate Color Intense Nature Rich
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Art Flower God Judgment Myself Object Painting Tree
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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Art Era God Preparation Study
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Astonishment Myself One Liner
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking
Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Discover Doubt Himself Nature Open See Success Way
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
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
If I think, everything is lost.
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Lost Myself One Liner Think
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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Himself Painting Word Work
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
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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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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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
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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Impression Nature Paint Realization Sensation Subject
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
A puny body weakens the soul.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

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