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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.
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Art Brief Define Myself Nature Soul Word
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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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
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 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
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Art Eyes God Myself
I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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Animate Color Intense Nature Rich
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Add Link Oneself Past Substitute
The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Myself Understand World
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
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Enough Eyes Need Thinking Yourself
Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Difficult Paint Thinking Yourself
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
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.
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Art Beginning Craft End Feeling Objective Principle
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
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
It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Blank Empty Fine Stand Terrible
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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Art Color Design Draw Rich Separate
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
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Appearance Hurry See Yourself
Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time
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
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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