The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
PAUL CEZANNE
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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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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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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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I want to die painting.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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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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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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Painting, 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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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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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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