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

Paul Cezanne

It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
PAUL CEZANNE

Flow Impossible Thinking Time
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNE
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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Artist Choice Combination Depend Fiction Painting Technique
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
PAUL CEZANNE

Advance Canvas Myself Time
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
PAUL CEZANNE

Appearance Myself Nature Progress Reveal Slow
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
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
PAUL CEZANNE

Eyes Feature Mindset Paint Support
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
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
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Art Flower God Judgment Myself Object Painting Tree
A puny body weakens the soul.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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Finding Happiness Oneself Study
If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Brief Define Myself Nature Soul Word
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNE

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

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