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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

Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
PAUL CEZANNE

Direction Nature Perspective Plane Point Proper Treat
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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Appearance Myself Nature Progress Reveal Slow
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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Impression Nature Paint Realization Sensation Subject
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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Direct Imitation Master Preference Willing Yourself
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.
PAUL CEZANNE
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNE
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Absract Art Drawing
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
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
Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Difficult Paint Thinking Yourself
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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Age Destroy Hard Illusion Myself Realization Sensible Willing

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