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

Paul Cezanne

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
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
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Eyes Feature Mindset Paint Support
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
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
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
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
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
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
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
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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Light Love Misery Oneself Side
Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Absract Art Drawing
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

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

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