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

Paul Cezanne

What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
PAUL CEZANNE

Mystery Sensation Source Translation Try
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Art Eyes God Myself
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Gratitude Intelligence Myself
I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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Discover Myself Nature Representation Reproduction Satisfaction Sun
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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Art Beginning Craft End Feeling Objective Principle
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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Distant Fertilizer Lazy Life Myself Sound Sun
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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Direction Nature Perspective Plane Point Proper Treat
You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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Bury Generosity Ideas Life Oneself Youth
The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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Chaos Human Live Myself Photograph Thinking
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
PAUL CEZANNE

Add Link Oneself Past Substitute
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
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
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
PAUL CEZANNE

Age Comfortable Conquer Finding Ourselves Prayer Religion

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