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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.

Paul Cezanne

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

Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNE
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
PAUL CEZANNE

Appearance Hurry See Yourself
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
PAUL CEZANNE

Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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Goodness Photograph Studio Willing
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
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Eyes Material Optics Ourselves Thinking
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
PAUL CEZANNE

Alive Focus Life Paint
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 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
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
PAUL CEZANNE

Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
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
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
PAUL CEZANNE

Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking
Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
PAUL CEZANNE

I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.

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