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

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
See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
PAUL CEZANNE

Light Love Misery Oneself Side
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
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Alive Focus Life Paint
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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Beginning Company Goodness Maturity Myself Opinion Reach Strong
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
PAUL CEZANNE

Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
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
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Add Link Oneself Past Substitute
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNE
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
PAUL CEZANNE

Alone Color Confirm Logic Myself Painting
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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Appearance Myself Nature Progress Reveal Slow

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

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