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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

Paul Cezanne

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength
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
It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Blank Empty Fine Stand Terrible
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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Goodness Photograph Studio Willing
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
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
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
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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Art Era God Preparation Study
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
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Achievement Color Form Full Rich
Pleasure must be found in study.
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Finding Happiness Oneself Study
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Change Day People Soul Thinking
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
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
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Block Isolation Strong Uncertain

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