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

Paul Cezanne

There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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Himself Painting Word Work
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
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Alive Focus Life Paint
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Achievement Color Form Full Rich
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
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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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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Beautiful Formula Memories Nature Ourselves 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
Pleasure must be found in study.
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Finding Happiness Oneself Study
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Abstraction Color Drawing Nature Pure
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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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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Color Draw Expression Literature Painting Perception Sensation Style

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