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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

Paul Cezanne

There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
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
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
PAUL CEZANNE

Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
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
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Blank Empty Fine Stand Terrible
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Art Eyes God Myself
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Appearance Hurry See 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
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

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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