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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.

Paul Cezanne

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

Distant Fertilizer Lazy Life Myself Sound Sun
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
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
PAUL CEZANNE

Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
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
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
PAUL CEZANNE

Experience Inspirational Paint Wisdom
The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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Different Modesty Oneself Strength Time
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
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Color Design Draw Rich Separate
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
PAUL CEZANNE

Evidence Nature Oneself Truth
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
PAUL CEZANNE

Alone Color Confirm Logic Myself Painting
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
PAUL CEZANNE
Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
PAUL CEZANNE

Artist Color Different Draw Form Rich Yourself
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
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
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

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