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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.

Paul Cezanne

When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Discover Doubt Himself Nature Open See Success Way
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
A puny body weakens the soul.
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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
Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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Artist Construction Fall Greatness Himself Limitation Rival
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Enough Eyes Need Thinking Yourself
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
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.
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Art Brief Define Myself Nature Soul Word
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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.
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Art Artist Choice Combination Depend Fiction Painting Technique
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Alive Focus Life Paint
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
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
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

The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.

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