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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.

Paul Cezanne

Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
PAUL CEZANNE

Emotion Essential Experience Expression Knowledge
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNE
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
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
Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
PAUL CEZANNE
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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Art Era God Preparation Study
I allow no one to touch me.
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Allow Myself Touch
I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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Discover Myself Nature Representation Reproduction Satisfaction Sun
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
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
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
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
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNE
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Astonishment Myself One Liner
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength

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