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I advance all of my canvas at one time.

Paul Cezanne

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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Impression Nature Paint Realization Sensation Subject
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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
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.
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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
I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Myself Paint Truth Yourself
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Eyes Feature Mindset Paint Support
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
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
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
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.

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