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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

Paul Cezanne

There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Change Day People Soul Thinking
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Alive Focus Life Paint
Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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Expression Heart Logic Possible
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNE
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
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
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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Brilliant Color Light Shadow Tone
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Astonishment Myself One Liner
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
Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Color Light Representation Reproduction
Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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Art Artist Choice Combination Depend Fiction Painting Technique
Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
PAUL CEZANNE

Breathe Color Innocent Moments Myself Photograph Rain World

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

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