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

Paul Cezanne

I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Gratitude Intelligence Myself
I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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Animate Color Intense Nature Rich
Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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Emotion Essential Experience Expression Knowledge
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
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength
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
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
PAUL CEZANNE
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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Direction Nature Perspective Plane Point Proper Treat
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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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Change Day People Soul Thinking
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
Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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Art Artist Choice Combination Depend Fiction Painting Technique

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