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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

Paul Cezanne

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
PAUL CEZANNE

Eyes Feature Mindset Paint Support
With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
PAUL CEZANNE

Expression Need Painting Public Temperature
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
PAUL CEZANNE

Be Yourself Copy Feeling
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
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
A puny body weakens the soul.
PAUL CEZANNE
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
PAUL CEZANNE

Experience Inspirational Paint Wisdom
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
PAUL CEZANNE
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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

Direction Nature Perspective Plane Point Proper Treat
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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Impression Nature Paint Realization Sensation Subject
Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
All the theories mess you up inside.
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Mess Theory Yourself
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
PAUL CEZANNE
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
PAUL CEZANNE

Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength

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