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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.

Paul Cezanne

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Change Day People Soul Thinking
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Gratitude Intelligence Myself
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Eyes Feature Mindset Paint Support
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
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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Art Beginning Craft End Feeling Objective Principle
Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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Expression Heart Logic Possible
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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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 painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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Himself Painting Word Work
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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Direct Imitation Master Preference Willing Yourself
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Art Flower God Judgment Myself Object Painting Tree

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