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There is no model, there is only color.

Paul Cezanne

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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Art Brief Define Myself Nature Soul Word
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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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
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
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Artist Paint See Unfold
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Add Link Oneself Past Substitute
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
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
Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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Breathe Color Innocent Moments Myself Photograph Rain World
I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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There is no model, there is only color.

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