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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.

Paul Cezanne

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
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
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
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
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
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Change Day People Soul Thinking
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
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Astonishment Myself One Liner
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Eyes Feature Mindset Paint Support
Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Absract Art Drawing
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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There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
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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Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work

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