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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’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
I allow no one to touch me.
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Allow Myself Touch
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
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
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
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
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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A puny body weakens the soul.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Appearance Hurry See Yourself
Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
I want to die painting.
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Death One Liner Paint
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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Chaos Human Live Myself Photograph Thinking
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone

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