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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.

Paul Cezanne

The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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Distant Fertilizer Lazy Life Myself Sound Sun
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
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 truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Evidence Nature Oneself Truth
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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Appearance Myself Nature Progress Reveal Slow
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
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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Cylinder Direction Nature Point Prospective Treat
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
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time
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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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Alive Focus Life Paint
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
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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Brilliant Color Light Shadow Tone
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

Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.

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