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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.

Paul Cezanne

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
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
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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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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Himself Painting Word Work
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Art Eyes God Myself
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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Mystery Sensation Source Translation Try
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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Impression Nature Paint Realization Sensation Subject
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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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
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Gratitude Intelligence Myself
Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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Disappear Hurry See Yourself
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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Beautiful Formula Memories Nature Ourselves Study
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

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