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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.

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
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
PAUL CEZANNE

Astonishment Myself One Liner
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Beginning Craft End Feeling Objective Principle
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
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
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
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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Animate Color Intense Nature Rich
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
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Company Goodness
Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
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
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Talk Wasted Time

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