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If I think, everything is lost.

Paul Cezanne

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.
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Art Beginning Craft End Feeling Objective Principle
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
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
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
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Company Goodness
Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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Expression Heart Logic Possible
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
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
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
PAUL CEZANNE

Be Yourself Copy Feeling
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Art Eyes God Myself
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
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
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

If I think, everything is lost.

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