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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

It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
PAUL CEZANNE

Blank Empty Fine Stand Terrible
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
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
PAUL CEZANNE

Appearance Myself Nature Progress Reveal Slow
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
PAUL CEZANNE

Beautiful Formula Memories Nature Ourselves Study
Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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Artist Color Different Draw Form Rich Yourself
Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
PAUL CEZANNE

Direct Imitation Master Preference Willing Yourself
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
PAUL CEZANNE
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
PAUL CEZANNE

Appearance Hurry See Yourself
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNE
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
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
If I think, everything is lost.
PAUL CEZANNE

Lost Myself One Liner Think
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
PAUL CEZANNE

Change Reflection Time Understand
Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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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