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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

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.
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Mystery Sensation Source Translation Try
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Age Comfortable Conquer Finding Ourselves Prayer Religion
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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Animate Color Intense Nature Rich
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
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
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
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
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Achievement Color Form Full Rich
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
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
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
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Enough Eyes Need Thinking 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.

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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.

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