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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.

Paul Cezanne

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

Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
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
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
PAUL CEZANNE

Astonishment Myself One Liner
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
PAUL CEZANNE

Alive Focus Life Paint
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
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Add Link Oneself Past Substitute
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
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
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
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
Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
PAUL CEZANNE

Difficult Paint Thinking Yourself
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
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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Age Destroy Hard Illusion Myself Realization Sensible Willing
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Abstraction Color Drawing Nature Pure

Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.

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