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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.

Paul Cezanne

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
PAUL CEZANNE

Invention Method Myself
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Abstraction Color Drawing Nature Pure
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength
I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
PAUL CEZANNE

Animate Color Intense Nature Rich
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
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 landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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Chaos Human Live Myself Photograph Thinking
Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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Artist Color Different Draw Form Rich Yourself
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
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
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Eyes God Myself

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.

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