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

Paul Cezanne

An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Beginning Craft End Feeling Objective Principle
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNE

Enough Eyes Need Thinking Yourself
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Eyes Feature Mindset Paint Support
Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
PAUL CEZANNE

Color Light Representation Reproduction
Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
PAUL CEZANNE

Expression Heart Logic Possible
The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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Chaos Human Live Myself Photograph Thinking
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
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Evidence Nature Oneself Truth
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Discover Doubt Himself Nature Open See Success Way
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
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNE

Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
I allow no one to touch me.
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Allow Myself Touch
With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
PAUL CEZANNE

Expression Need Painting Public Temperature
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
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
PAUL CEZANNE
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Gratitude Intelligence Myself
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
PAUL CEZANNE

Harmony Object Paint Relationship
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Age Comfortable Conquer Finding Ourselves Prayer Religion
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Appearance Hurry See Yourself
Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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Art Color Design Draw Rich Separate
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNE
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

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

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