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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

Paul Cezanne

Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Art Eyes Material Optics Ourselves Thinking
I want to die painting.
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Death One Liner Paint
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 so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Blank Empty Fine Stand Terrible
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
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking
You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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Bury Generosity Ideas Life Oneself Youth
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNE
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Art Flower God Judgment Myself Object Painting Tree
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
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
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Artist Paint See Unfold
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
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

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