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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!

Paul Cezanne

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
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
PAUL CEZANNE

Astonishment Myself One Liner
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
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
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
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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Goodness Photograph Studio Willing
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
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.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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Beautiful Formula Memories Nature Ourselves Study
You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
PAUL CEZANNE

Bury Generosity Ideas Life Oneself Youth
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNE
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Achievement Color Form Full Rich
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
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
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius

Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!

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