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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

When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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Art Artist Different Goodness Professional
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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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
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself 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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All the theories mess you up inside.
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Mess Theory Yourself
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
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
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
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
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
Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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Beginning Company Goodness Maturity Myself Opinion Reach Strong

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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