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

Paul Cezanne

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
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
PAUL CEZANNE

Myself Understand World
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
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
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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Experience Inspirational Paint Wisdom
I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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Animate Color Intense Nature Rich
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
A puny body weakens the soul.
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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
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
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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Light Love Misery Oneself Side
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
All the theories mess you up inside.
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Mess Theory Yourself

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