Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
PAUL CEZANNEArt first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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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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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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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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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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