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Paul Cezanne

Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Company Goodness
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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
Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Alive Focus Life Paint
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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Expression Heart Logic Possible
Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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Artist Construction Fall Greatness Himself Limitation Rival
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
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
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
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Enough Eyes Need Thinking Yourself
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
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
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling

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