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When I start thinking, all is lost.

Paul Cezanne

Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Eyes Material Optics Ourselves Thinking
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
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
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
PAUL CEZANNE

Gratitude Intelligence Myself
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
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNE
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Absract Art Drawing
Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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Art Era God Preparation Study
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
PAUL CEZANNE

Mystery Sensation Source Translation Try
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 owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Myself Paint Truth Yourself
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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Brilliant Color Light Shadow Tone
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction

When I start thinking, all is lost.

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