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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.

Paul Cezanne

The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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Chaos Human Live Myself Photograph Thinking
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
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
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Change Day People Soul Thinking
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Astonishment Myself One Liner
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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Beginning Craft End Feeling Objective Principle
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
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
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.
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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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Direction Nature Perspective Plane Point Proper Treat
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
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

I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.

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