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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.

Paul Cezanne

Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
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
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Evidence Nature Oneself Truth
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
I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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Discover Myself Nature Representation Reproduction Satisfaction Sun
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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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
Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
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
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Artist Paint See Unfold
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
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Art Eyes God Myself
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 painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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Himself Painting Word Work
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand

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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