Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
PAUL CEZANNE
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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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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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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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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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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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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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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