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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.

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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Brief Define Myself Nature Soul Word
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
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Appearance Hurry See Yourself
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
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Beginning Craft End Feeling Objective Principle
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Gratitude Intelligence Myself
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Add Link Oneself Past Substitute
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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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
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
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Evidence Nature Oneself Truth

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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