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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

Paul Cezanne

Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself 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
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
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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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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Different Modesty Oneself Strength Time
A puny body weakens the soul.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Color Draw Expression Literature Painting Perception Sensation Style
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Company Goodness
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
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
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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Alone Color Confirm Logic Myself Painting
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Enough Eyes Need Thinking Yourself
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

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

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