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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

Paul Cezanne

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Color Draw Expression Literature Painting Perception Sensation Style
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
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
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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Goodness Photograph Studio Willing
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Age Comfortable Conquer Finding Ourselves Prayer Religion
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
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
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
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
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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Breathe Color Innocent Moments Myself Photograph Rain World
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Gratitude Intelligence Myself
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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Direction Nature Perspective Plane Point Proper Treat
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
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Change Day People Soul Thinking
Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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Direct Imitation Master Preference Willing 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
Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Art Eyes Material Optics Ourselves Thinking
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
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Myself Paint Truth Yourself
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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Beautiful Formula Memories Nature Ourselves Study

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