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Pure drawing is an abstraction.

Paul Cezanne

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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Cylinder Direction Nature Point Prospective Treat
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking
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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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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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
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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Emotion Essential Experience Expression Knowledge
Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Art Eyes Material Optics Ourselves Thinking
Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
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
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
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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Age Destroy Hard Illusion Myself Realization Sensible Willing
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength

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