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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

Paul Cezanne

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
Pleasure must be found in study.
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Finding Happiness Oneself Study
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
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Change Day People Soul Thinking
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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Disappear Hurry See Yourself
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
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
PAUL CEZANNE
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Myself Paint Truth Yourself
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Harmony Object Paint Relationship
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand

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