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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

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
PAUL CEZANNE

Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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Distant Fertilizer Lazy Life Myself Sound Sun
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time
With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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Expression Need Painting Public Temperature
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 am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
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
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Change Day People Soul Thinking
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNE
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
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.
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Alone Color Confirm Logic Myself Painting
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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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
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
PAUL CEZANNE

Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time

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