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

Paul Cezanne

Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
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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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
Pleasure must be found in study.
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Finding Happiness Oneself Study
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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Impression Nature Paint Realization Sensation Subject
It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Blank Empty Fine Stand Terrible
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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Age Destroy Hard Illusion Myself Realization Sensible Willing
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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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Gratitude Intelligence Myself
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
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Company Goodness
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Absract Art Drawing
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
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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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.

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