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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

Paul Cezanne

Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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Brilliant Color Light Shadow Tone
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking
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
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 in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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Figure Form Himself Learning Nature Painting Simplicity
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Blank Empty Fine Stand Terrible
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
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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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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Animate Color Intense Nature Rich
Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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Artist Color Different Draw Form Rich Yourself
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

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