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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

Paul Cezanne

When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNE

Achievement Color Form Full Rich
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
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
If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Brief Define Myself Nature Soul Word
With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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Expression Need Painting Public Temperature
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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Flow Impossible Thinking Time
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
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Add Link Oneself Past Substitute
Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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Cylinder Direction Nature Point Prospective Treat
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
PAUL CEZANNE

Experience Inspirational Paint Wisdom
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNE

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

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