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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

I allow no one to touch me.
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Allow Myself Touch
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Add Link Oneself Past Substitute
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
PAUL CEZANNE
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
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
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
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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Experience Inspirational Paint Wisdom
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
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 truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Evidence Nature Oneself Truth
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
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
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
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
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
See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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Light Love Misery Oneself Side
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Absract Art Drawing
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
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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