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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Paul Cezanne

You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Appearance Hurry See Yourself
The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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Different Modesty Oneself Strength Time
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
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
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
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.
PAUL CEZANNE
Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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Figure Form Himself Learning Nature Painting Simplicity
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Astonishment Myself One Liner
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNE
Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
PAUL CEZANNE

Expression Heart Logic Possible
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNE
Nature is the best instructor.
PAUL CEZANNE

Best Instruction Nature One Liner

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

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