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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.

Paul Cezanne

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNE
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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
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.
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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
Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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Art Artist Choice Combination Depend Fiction Painting Technique
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
PAUL CEZANNE
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.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
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
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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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
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
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
I want to die painting.
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Death One Liner Paint
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself

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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