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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.

Paul Cezanne

It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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Flow Impossible Thinking Time
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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Art Brief Define Myself Nature Soul Word
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
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 advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
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
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
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
The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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Chaos Human Live Myself Photograph Thinking
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
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Color Draw Expression Literature Painting Perception Sensation Style
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
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
With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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Expression Need Painting Public Temperature
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
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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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Art Eyes Material Optics Ourselves Thinking
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Evidence Nature Oneself Truth
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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Appearance Myself Nature Progress Reveal Slow
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Company Goodness
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
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

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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