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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.

Paul Cezanne

Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Difficult Paint Thinking Yourself
Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Art Eyes Material Optics Ourselves Thinking
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Art Eyes God Myself
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
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
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Discover Doubt Himself Nature Open See Success Way
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Myself Understand World
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNE

Enough Eyes Need Thinking Yourself
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
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
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Add Link Oneself Past Substitute
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Company Goodness
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNE

You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.

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