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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.

Paul Cezanne

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Era God Preparation Study
Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
PAUL CEZANNE

Difficult Paint Thinking Yourself
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
PAUL CEZANNE
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Achievement Color Form Full Rich
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking
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
A puny body weakens the soul.
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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
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
Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
PAUL CEZANNE

Figure Form Himself Learning Nature Painting Simplicity
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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Flow Impossible Thinking Time

I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.

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