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

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.
PAUL CEZANNE
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 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
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Enough Eyes Need Thinking Yourself
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Appearance Hurry See Yourself
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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Light Love Misery Oneself Side
I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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Animate Color Intense Nature Rich
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
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
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
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
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNE
With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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Expression Need Painting Public Temperature

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

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