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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.

Paul Cezanne

Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
PAUL CEZANNE

Difficult Paint Thinking Yourself
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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Himself Painting Word Work
All the theories mess you up inside.
PAUL CEZANNE

Mess Theory Yourself
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
Nature is the best instructor.
PAUL CEZANNE

Best Instruction Nature One Liner
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Art Eyes Material Optics Ourselves Thinking
The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.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
Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
PAUL CEZANNE
I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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Discover Myself Nature Representation Reproduction Satisfaction Sun
Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
PAUL CEZANNE
A puny body weakens the soul.
PAUL CEZANNE

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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