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Pleasure must be found in study.

Paul Cezanne

The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
PAUL CEZANNE

Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNE

Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
PAUL CEZANNE
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
PAUL CEZANNE

Be Yourself Copy Feeling
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
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
PAUL CEZANNE

Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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Goodness Photograph Studio Willing
Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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Alone Color Confirm Logic Myself Painting
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
It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Blank Empty Fine Stand Terrible
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNE
A puny body weakens the soul.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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Allow Myself Touch
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
I want to die painting.
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Death One Liner Paint
Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
PAUL CEZANNE

Color Light Representation Reproduction
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
PAUL CEZANNE

Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
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
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
PAUL CEZANNE
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Evidence Nature Oneself Truth
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time
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
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
PAUL CEZANNE

Discover Doubt Himself Nature Open See Success Way

Pleasure must be found in study.

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