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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

Paul Cezanne

Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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Emotion Essential Experience Expression Knowledge
I want to die painting.
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Death One Liner Paint
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Change Day People Soul Thinking
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
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
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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Age Destroy Hard Illusion Myself Realization Sensible Willing
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
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Eyes Feature Mindset Paint Support
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.
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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
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

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

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