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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

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Alive Focus Life Paint
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Mystery Sensation Source Translation Try
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
I want to die painting.
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Death One Liner Paint
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
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
I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Myself Paint Truth 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
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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Art Color Design Draw Rich Separate
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNE

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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