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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

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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Art Brief Define Myself Nature Soul Word
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Difficult Paint Thinking Yourself
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Achievement Color Form Full Rich
The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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Different Modesty Oneself Strength Time
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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Himself Painting Word Work
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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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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Expression Heart Logic Possible
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Evidence Nature Oneself Truth
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength
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
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
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
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 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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