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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.

Paul Cezanne

We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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
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
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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Mystery Sensation Source Translation Try
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Artist Paint See Unfold
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
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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Art Beginning Craft End Feeling Objective Principle
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
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
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
Pleasure must be found in study.
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Finding Happiness Oneself Study
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Age Comfortable Conquer Finding Ourselves Prayer Religion
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNE
Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
PAUL CEZANNE

I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.

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