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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.

Paul Cezanne

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
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
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
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
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNE

Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
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.
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Figure Form Himself Learning Nature Painting Simplicity
Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
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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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Beginning Craft End Feeling Objective Principle
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Color Draw Expression Literature Painting Perception Sensation Style
I want to die painting.
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Death One Liner Paint
Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Art Eyes Material Optics Ourselves 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
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

Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.

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