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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

Paul Cezanne

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
PAUL CEZANNE
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNE
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
PAUL CEZANNE

Appearance Hurry See Yourself
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
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Art Flower God Judgment Myself Object Painting Tree
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
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
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
PAUL CEZANNE

Gratitude Intelligence Myself
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
PAUL CEZANNE

Change Reflection Time Understand
The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Myself Understand World
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Abstraction Color Drawing Nature Pure
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNE

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

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