You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNE
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.
PAUL CEZANNE
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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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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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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