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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

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

Cylinder Direction Nature Point Prospective Treat
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNE

Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
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
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
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
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.
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Art Brief Define Myself Nature Soul Word
Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNE
Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
PAUL CEZANNE

Breathe Color Innocent Moments Myself Photograph Rain World
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNE
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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Mystery Sensation Source Translation Try
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
Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
PAUL CEZANNE

Expression Heart Logic Possible
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

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

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