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

Paul Cezanne

Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
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
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
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
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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Expression Need Painting Public Temperature
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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Bury Generosity Ideas Life Oneself Youth
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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Mystery Sensation Source Translation Try
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Art Flower God Judgment Myself Object Painting Tree
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
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
I want to die painting.
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Death One Liner Paint
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
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
Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Difficult Paint Thinking Yourself
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
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 advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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Art Artist Different Goodness Professional
I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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Discover Myself Nature Representation Reproduction Satisfaction Sun

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