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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.

Paul Cezanne

Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Art Eyes God Myself
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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Alone Color Confirm Logic Myself Painting
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
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Beginning Craft End Feeling Objective Principle
Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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Art Artist Choice Combination Depend Fiction Painting Technique
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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Beautiful Formula Memories Nature Ourselves Study
Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Color Light Representation Reproduction
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Achievement Color Form Full Rich
See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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Light Love Misery Oneself Side
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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Experience Inspirational Paint Wisdom
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

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