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Pleasure must be found in study.

Paul Cezanne

Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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Breathe Color Innocent Moments Myself Photograph Rain World
Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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Disappear Hurry See Yourself
The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Myself Understand World
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
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
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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Art Era God Preparation Study
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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Mystery Sensation Source Translation Try
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 most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Art Flower God Judgment Myself Object Painting Tree
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Alive Focus Life Paint
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
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.
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Cylinder Direction Nature Point Prospective Treat
I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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Beginning Company Goodness Maturity Myself Opinion Reach Strong

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