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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

Paul Cezanne

I want to die painting.
PAUL CEZANNE

Death One Liner Paint
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Harmony Object Paint Relationship
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
PAUL CEZANNE
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Difficult Paint Thinking Yourself
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
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
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.
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Light Love Misery Oneself Side
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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Art Artist Different Goodness Professional
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
The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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Different Modesty Oneself Strength Time
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
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

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