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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

Paul Cezanne

It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
PAUL CEZANNE

Blank Empty Fine Stand Terrible
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
PAUL CEZANNE
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
PAUL CEZANNE

Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
PAUL CEZANNE

Experience Inspirational Paint Wisdom
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNE
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Art Flower God Judgment Myself Object Painting Tree
I allow no one to touch me.
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Allow Myself Touch
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNE

Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
PAUL CEZANNE

Evidence Nature Oneself Truth
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNE
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
PAUL CEZANNE

Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.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
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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Alone Color Confirm Logic Myself Painting
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
PAUL CEZANNE

Artist Cylinder Form Nature

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

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