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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.

Paul Cezanne

Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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 wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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Discover Myself Nature Representation Reproduction Satisfaction Sun
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
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
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Astonishment Myself One Liner
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
It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Blank Empty Fine Stand Terrible
A puny body weakens the soul.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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Art Artist Different Goodness Professional
Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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Expression Heart Logic Possible
Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Color Light Representation Reproduction

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