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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

Paul Cezanne

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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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength
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
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Achievement Color Form Full Rich
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
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
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
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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Brilliant Color Light Shadow Tone
Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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Breathe Color Innocent Moments Myself Photograph Rain World
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Myself Understand World
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
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
Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Color Light Representation Reproduction
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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