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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

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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I allow no one to touch me.
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Allow Myself Touch
It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Blank Empty Fine Stand Terrible
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Company Goodness
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
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
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
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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Mystery Sensation Source Translation Try
Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Color Light Representation Reproduction
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Artist Paint See Unfold
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
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Discover Doubt Himself Nature Open See Success Way
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature

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

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