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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.

Paul Cezanne

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.
PAUL CEZANNE
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 is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Alive Focus Life Paint
The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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Different Modesty Oneself Strength Time
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
If I think, everything is lost.
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Lost Myself One Liner Think
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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
Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Color Light Representation Reproduction
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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Age Destroy Hard Illusion Myself Realization Sensible Willing
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Evidence Nature Oneself Truth
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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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
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNE

Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.

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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.

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