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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.

Paul Cezanne

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Harmony Object Paint Relationship
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, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
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
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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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Appearance Hurry See Yourself
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
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Gratitude Intelligence Myself
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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Flow Impossible Thinking Time
With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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Expression Need Painting Public Temperature
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
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
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
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

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