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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.

Paul Cezanne

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

Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
PAUL CEZANNE

Astonishment Myself One Liner
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Gratitude Intelligence Myself
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
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 am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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Beginning Company Goodness Maturity Myself Opinion Reach Strong
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
PAUL CEZANNE

Discover Doubt Himself Nature Open See Success Way
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.
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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
Pleasure must be found in study.
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Finding Happiness Oneself Study
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
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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Brilliant Color Light Shadow Tone
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
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
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature

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