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Paul Cezanne

I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
PAUL CEZANNE

Appearance Myself Nature Progress Reveal Slow
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.
PAUL CEZANNE
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
PAUL CEZANNE
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
PAUL CEZANNE

Goodness Photograph Studio Willing
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
PAUL CEZANNE

Color Draw Expression Literature Painting Perception Sensation Style
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNE
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
PAUL CEZANNE

Change Day People Soul Thinking
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Add Link Oneself Past Substitute
Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
PAUL CEZANNE

Difficult Paint Thinking Yourself
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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Brief Define Myself Nature Soul Word
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
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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Figure Form Himself Learning Nature Painting Simplicity
Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Artist Color Different Draw Form Rich Yourself

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