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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.

Paul Cezanne

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
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
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
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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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
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
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Artist Paint See Unfold
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
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful 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
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
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius

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