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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

Paul Cezanne

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 sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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Distant Fertilizer Lazy Life Myself Sound Sun
Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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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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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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Different Modesty Oneself Strength 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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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’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Gratitude Intelligence Myself
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
Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Absract Art Drawing
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Evidence Nature Oneself Truth
Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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Figure Form Himself Learning Nature Painting Simplicity
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model

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