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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.

Paul Cezanne

Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Absract Art Drawing
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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Distant Fertilizer Lazy Life Myself Sound Sun
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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Art Artist Different Goodness Professional
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
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Harmony Object Paint Relationship
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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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
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
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Appearance Hurry See Yourself

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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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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