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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.

Paul Cezanne

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
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
Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Gratitude Intelligence Myself
You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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Bury Generosity Ideas Life Oneself Youth
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNE
Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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Direct Imitation Master Preference Willing Yourself
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
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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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.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
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 could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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Experience Inspirational Paint Wisdom
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
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNE
A puny body weakens the soul.
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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
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Harmony Object Paint Relationship
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Alive Focus Life Paint
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
If I think, everything is lost.
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Lost Myself One Liner Think
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.
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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
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Artist Paint See Unfold
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius

Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.

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