There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
PAUL CEZANNE
Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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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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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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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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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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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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