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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.

Paul Cezanne

You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Appearance Hurry See Yourself
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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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
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
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
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
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
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNE
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
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
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
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 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
Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work

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