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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.

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 advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
PAUL CEZANNE

Brilliant Color Light Shadow Tone
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
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
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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Himself Painting Word Work
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNE
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNE

Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start 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
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
PAUL CEZANNE
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
PAUL CEZANNE

Ability Emotion Experience Genius
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Evidence Nature Oneself Truth
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
PAUL CEZANNE

Invention Method Myself
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNE

Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.

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