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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

Paul Cezanne

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
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking
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
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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Direction Nature Perspective Plane Point Proper Treat
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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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
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
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
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
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 have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Appearance Hurry See Yourself
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
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time

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