Nature is the best instructor.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting, 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 is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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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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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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