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Chatter about art is almost always useless.

Paul Cezanne

It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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Flow Impossible Thinking Time
Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
PAUL CEZANNE

Disappear Hurry See Yourself
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNE

Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
PAUL CEZANNE

Artist Color Different Draw Form Rich Yourself
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
PAUL CEZANNE

Appearance Myself Nature Progress Reveal Slow
Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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Expression Heart Logic Possible
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNE
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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Color Design Draw Rich Separate
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Artist Paint See Unfold
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
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Abstraction Color Drawing Nature Pure
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
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Alive Focus Life Paint
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time

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