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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

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
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
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
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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Mystery Sensation Source Translation Try
All the theories mess you up inside.
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Mess Theory Yourself
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
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
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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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
Pleasure must be found in study.
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Finding Happiness Oneself Study
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
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Astonishment Myself One Liner
The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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Different Modesty Oneself Strength Time

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