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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Paul Cezanne

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
PAUL CEZANNE

Discover Doubt Himself Nature Open See Success Way
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Evidence Nature Oneself Truth
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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Beginning Company Goodness Maturity Myself Opinion Reach Strong
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
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
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
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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Beautiful Formula Memories Nature Ourselves Study
The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Myself Understand World
All the theories mess you up inside.
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Mess Theory Yourself
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 awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength
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
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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Alone Color Confirm Logic Myself Painting
With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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Expression Need Painting Public Temperature

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