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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.

Paul Cezanne

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
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
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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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
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
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Evidence Nature Oneself Truth
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
I allow no one to touch me.
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Allow Myself Touch
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
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 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
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Myself Paint Truth Yourself
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
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution

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