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 CEZANNEMichelangelo 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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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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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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All the theories mess you up inside.
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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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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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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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A puny body weakens the soul.
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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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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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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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