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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.

Paul Cezanne

Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
PAUL CEZANNE

Artist Cylinder Form Nature
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Company Goodness
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 say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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Art Era God Preparation Study
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Appearance Hurry See Yourself
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
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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Mystery Sensation Source Translation Try
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
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Alive Focus Life Paint
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNE
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Color Draw Expression Literature Painting Perception Sensation Style
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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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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Disappear Hurry See Yourself
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNE
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Artist Paint See Unfold

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