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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.

Paul Cezanne

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
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
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
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
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
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
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
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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Mystery Sensation Source Translation Try
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
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
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
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

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