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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.

Paul Cezanne

Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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Emotion Essential Experience Expression Knowledge
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Enough Eyes Need Thinking Yourself
Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Difficult Paint Thinking Yourself
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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Distant Fertilizer Lazy Life Myself Sound Sun
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
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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Light Love Misery Oneself Side
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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Appearance Myself Nature Progress Reveal Slow
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
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.
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Cylinder Direction Nature Point Prospective Treat
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Art Eyes God Myself
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
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNE

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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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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