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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.

Paul Cezanne

There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
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
I allow no one to touch me.
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Allow Myself Touch
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
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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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 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
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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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
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
You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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Bury Generosity Ideas Life Oneself Youth
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
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
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

Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.

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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.

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