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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

Paul Cezanne

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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Cylinder Direction Nature Point Prospective Treat
It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Blank Empty Fine Stand Terrible
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
PAUL CEZANNE

Difficult Paint Thinking Yourself
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
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
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
PAUL CEZANNE
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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I want to die painting.
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Death One Liner Paint
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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Art Era God Preparation Study
I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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Animate Color Intense Nature Rich
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
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Appearance Hurry See Yourself
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
Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

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