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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Paul Cezanne

Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Art Flower God Judgment Myself Object Painting Tree
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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Art Era God Preparation Study
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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Alone Color Confirm Logic Myself Painting
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
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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Cylinder Direction Nature Point Prospective Treat
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Achievement Color Form Full Rich
All the theories mess you up inside.
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Mess Theory Yourself
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Myself Understand World
Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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Emotion Essential Experience Expression Knowledge
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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Light Love Misery Oneself Side
The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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Chaos Human Live Myself Photograph Thinking
Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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Goodness Photograph Studio Willing
Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Difficult Paint Thinking Yourself
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
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 are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Eyes Feature Mindset Paint Support
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Artist Paint See Unfold
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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Appearance Myself Nature Progress Reveal Slow
Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Art Eyes Material Optics Ourselves Thinking
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

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