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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

Paul Cezanne

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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Art Color Design Draw Rich Separate
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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Art Artist Different Goodness Professional
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
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
Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
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
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
PAUL CEZANNE
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Alive Focus Life Paint
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Achievement Color Form Full Rich
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNE
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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Beautiful Formula Memories Nature Ourselves Study
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
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
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
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
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
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
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
Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
If I think, everything is lost.
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Lost Myself One Liner Think
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 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

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