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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

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Harmony Object Paint Relationship
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
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Enough Eyes Need Thinking Yourself
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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Flow Impossible Thinking Time
Pleasure must be found in study.
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Finding Happiness Oneself Study
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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Emotion Essential Experience Expression Knowledge
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
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
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Company Goodness
I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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Discover Myself Nature Representation Reproduction Satisfaction Sun
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Abstraction Color Drawing Nature Pure
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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Art Era God Preparation Study
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Achievement Color Form Full Rich
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

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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