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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.

Paul Cezanne

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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Beginning Craft End Feeling Objective Principle
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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Astonishment Myself One Liner
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.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Age Comfortable Conquer Finding Ourselves Prayer Religion
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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Expression Need Painting Public Temperature
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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Artist Construction Fall Greatness Himself Limitation Rival
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
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
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling

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