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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
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
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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Age Destroy Hard Illusion Myself Realization Sensible Willing
I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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Beginning Company Goodness Maturity Myself Opinion Reach Strong
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
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Alive Focus Life Paint
I allow no one to touch me.
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Allow Myself Touch
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
Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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Direction Nature Perspective Plane Point Proper Treat
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
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Conscious Landscape Myself 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
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
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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Art Beginning Craft End Feeling Objective Principle
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

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