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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

Paul Cezanne

I advance all of my canvas at one time.
PAUL CEZANNE

Advance Canvas Myself Time
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
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
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
PAUL CEZANNE

Goodness Photograph Studio Willing
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.
PAUL CEZANNE
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
A puny body weakens the soul.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Talk Wasted Time
Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
All the theories mess you up inside.
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Mess Theory Yourself
Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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Artist Color Different Draw Form Rich Yourself
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
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
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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Art Artist Different Goodness Professional

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