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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.

Paul Cezanne

What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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Mystery Sensation Source Translation Try
If I think, everything is lost.
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Lost Myself One Liner Think
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
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
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength
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
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
Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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Figure Form Himself Learning Nature Painting Simplicity
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time
Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
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
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
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
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.

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