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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

Paul Cezanne

The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
PAUL CEZANNE

Artist Paint See Unfold
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 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
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
PAUL CEZANNE
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
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
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
PAUL CEZANNE

Gratitude Intelligence Myself
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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Impression Nature Paint Realization Sensation Subject
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
PAUL CEZANNE

Astonishment Myself One Liner
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.
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Artist Color Different Draw Form Rich Yourself
I allow no one to touch me.
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Allow Myself Touch
There is no model, there is only color.
PAUL CEZANNE

Color Model
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Evidence Nature Oneself Truth
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
PAUL CEZANNE

Color Draw Expression Literature Painting Perception Sensation Style
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
PAUL CEZANNE

Alive Focus Life Paint

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