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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

Paul Cezanne

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
PAUL CEZANNE

Discover Doubt Himself Nature Open See Success Way
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Age Comfortable Conquer Finding Ourselves Prayer Religion
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
Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
PAUL CEZANNE

Color Light Representation Reproduction
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
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
Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
PAUL CEZANNE
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
PAUL CEZANNE

Be Yourself Copy Feeling
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
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
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
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Appearance Hurry See Yourself
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Absract Art Drawing
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
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 must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Enough Eyes Need Thinking Yourself
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
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
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
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNE
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
PAUL CEZANNE

Beautiful Formula Memories Nature Ourselves Study
Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

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