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

Paul Cezanne

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
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 more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Astonishment Myself One Liner
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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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
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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Lost Myself One Liner Think
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Artist Paint See Unfold
Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Color Light Representation Reproduction
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
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
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
Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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Direct Imitation Master Preference Willing Yourself
I want to die painting.
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Death One Liner Paint
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
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Alive Focus Life Paint
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Achievement Color Form Full Rich
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching

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

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