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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.

Paul Cezanne

You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNE

Enough Eyes Need Thinking Yourself
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
PAUL CEZANNE

Distant Fertilizer Lazy Life Myself Sound Sun
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
PAUL CEZANNE

Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
When I start thinking, all is lost.
PAUL CEZANNE

Lost One Liner Start Thinking
Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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I want to die painting.
PAUL CEZANNE

Death One Liner Paint
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
PAUL CEZANNE

Alive Focus Life Paint
I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
PAUL CEZANNE

Discover Myself Nature Representation Reproduction Satisfaction Sun
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNE
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
PAUL CEZANNE

Be Yourself Copy Feeling
Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
PAUL CEZANNE

Direct Imitation Master Preference Willing Yourself
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
PAUL CEZANNE

Himself Painting Word Work
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
PAUL CEZANNE

Eyes Feature Mindset Paint Support
I allow no one to touch me.
PAUL CEZANNE

Allow Myself Touch
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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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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