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

Paul Cezanne

There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Artist Different Goodness Professional
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
PAUL CEZANNE

Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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Beautiful Formula Memories Nature Ourselves Study
If I think, everything is lost.
PAUL CEZANNE

Lost Myself One Liner Think
It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Blank Empty Fine Stand Terrible
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
The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
PAUL CEZANNE

Myself Understand World
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
PAUL CEZANNE

Harmony Object Paint Relationship
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNE

Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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Chaos Human Live Myself Photograph Thinking
Nature is the best instructor.
PAUL CEZANNE

Best Instruction Nature One Liner
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.
PAUL CEZANNE
I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
PAUL CEZANNE

Animate Color Intense Nature Rich
I allow no one to touch me.
PAUL CEZANNE

Allow Myself Touch
You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
PAUL CEZANNE

Bury Generosity Ideas Life Oneself Youth

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