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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.

Paul Cezanne

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNE

Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
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
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
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
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Appearance Hurry See Yourself
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
PAUL CEZANNE
Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Difficult Paint Thinking Yourself
Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Art Eyes Material Optics Ourselves Thinking
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNE
Pleasure must be found in study.
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Finding Happiness Oneself Study
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Artist Different Goodness Professional
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 am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNE

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.

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