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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

A puny body weakens the soul.
PAUL CEZANNE
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Art Eyes God Myself
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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Breathe Color Innocent Moments Myself Photograph Rain World
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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.
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Art Color Design Draw Rich Separate
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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Beautiful Formula Memories Nature Ourselves Study
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
If I think, everything is lost.
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Lost Myself One Liner Think
Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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Artist Construction Fall Greatness Himself Limitation Rival
Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
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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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Harmony Object Paint Relationship
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNE
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Appearance Hurry See Yourself
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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Himself Painting Word Work
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Gratitude Intelligence Myself
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
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
I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
PAUL CEZANNE
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Color Draw Expression Literature Painting Perception Sensation Style
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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Art Artist Different Goodness Professional
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Achievement Color Form Full Rich
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Enough Eyes Need Thinking Yourself
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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