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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

Paul Cezanne

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Harmony Object Paint Relationship
Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Color Light Representation Reproduction
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
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Myself Paint Truth Yourself
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
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Appearance Hurry See Yourself
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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Breathe Color Innocent Moments Myself Photograph Rain World
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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Brilliant Color Light Shadow Tone
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
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
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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Art Brief Define Myself Nature Soul Word
A puny body weakens the soul.
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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
I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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Animate Color Intense Nature Rich
Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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Artist Color Different Draw Form Rich Yourself
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time
Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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Expression Heart Logic Possible

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