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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

The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking
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
Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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Emotion Essential Experience Expression Knowledge
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
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
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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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
I want to die painting.
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Death One Liner Paint
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
Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Absract Art Drawing
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
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Abstraction Color Drawing Nature Pure

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