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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
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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Flow Impossible Thinking Time
Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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Art Artist Choice Combination Depend Fiction Painting Technique
Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Color Light Representation Reproduction
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
Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
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
Pleasure must be found in study.
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Finding Happiness Oneself Study
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNE
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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Light Love Misery Oneself Side
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
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
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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Experience Inspirational Paint Wisdom

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

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