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

Paul Cezanne

Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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Artist Construction Fall Greatness Himself Limitation Rival
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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Bury Generosity Ideas Life Oneself Youth
All the theories mess you up inside.
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Mess Theory Yourself
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
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
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
If I think, everything is lost.
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Lost Myself One Liner Think
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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Cylinder Direction Nature Point Prospective Treat
Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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Impression Nature Paint Realization Sensation Subject
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
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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Appearance Myself Nature Progress Reveal Slow
I want to die painting.
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Death One Liner Paint
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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Flow Impossible Thinking Time

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