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Paul Cezanne

Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Difficult Paint Thinking Yourself
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Myself Paint Truth Yourself
Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Absract Art Drawing
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
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Abstraction Color Drawing Nature Pure
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
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
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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
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
A puny body weakens the soul.
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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
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching

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