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

Paul Cezanne

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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Age Destroy Hard Illusion Myself Realization Sensible Willing
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
All the theories mess you up inside.
PAUL CEZANNE

Mess Theory Yourself
Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Difficult Paint Thinking Yourself
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
PAUL CEZANNE
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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Himself Painting Word Work
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
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
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
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 took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
Pleasure must be found in study.
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Finding Happiness Oneself Study
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

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

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