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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.

Paul Cezanne

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.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
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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Art Color Design Draw Rich Separate
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
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Achievement Color Form Full Rich
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Color Draw Expression Literature Painting Perception Sensation Style
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Appearance Hurry See Yourself
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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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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Direct Imitation Master Preference Willing Yourself
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Gratitude Intelligence Myself
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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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Appearance Myself Nature Progress Reveal Slow
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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Art Beginning Craft End Feeling Objective Principle
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model

Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.

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