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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.

Paul Cezanne

Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
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
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Discover Doubt Himself Nature Open See Success Way
I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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Figure Form Himself Learning Nature Painting Simplicity
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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Chaos Human Live Myself Photograph Thinking
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Evidence Nature Oneself Truth
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Art Flower God Judgment Myself Object Painting Tree
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
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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Alone Color Confirm Logic Myself Painting
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Astonishment Myself One Liner
I want to die painting.
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Death One Liner Paint
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
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
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Age Comfortable Conquer Finding Ourselves Prayer Religion
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Abstraction Color Drawing Nature Pure
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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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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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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
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

Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.

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