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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

Paul Cezanne

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
I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
PAUL CEZANNE

Myself Paint Truth Yourself
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
Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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Direction Nature Perspective Plane Point Proper Treat
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
A puny body weakens the soul.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Art Flower God Judgment Myself Object Painting Tree
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Age Comfortable Conquer Finding Ourselves Prayer Religion

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