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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

Paul Cezanne

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
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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Goodness Photograph Studio Willing
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Difficult Paint Thinking Yourself
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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Beautiful Formula Memories Nature Ourselves Study
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Abstraction Color Drawing Nature Pure
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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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
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Enough Eyes Need Thinking Yourself
Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
PAUL CEZANNE
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Astonishment Myself One Liner
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
If I think, everything is lost.
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Lost Myself One Liner Think
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

It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

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