The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
PAUL CEZANNEEverything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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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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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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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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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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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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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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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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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 landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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