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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

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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Brief Define Myself Nature Soul Word
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Gratitude Intelligence Myself
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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Direct Imitation Master Preference Willing Yourself
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
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
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
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking
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 sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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Distant Fertilizer Lazy Life Myself Sound Sun
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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Beginning Company Goodness Maturity Myself Opinion Reach Strong
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
Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
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
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

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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