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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

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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Brilliant Color Light Shadow Tone
If I think, everything is lost.
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Lost Myself One Liner Think
Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Art Eyes Material Optics Ourselves Thinking
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Enough Eyes Need Thinking Yourself
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
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
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
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’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Gratitude Intelligence Myself
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
Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Absract Art Drawing
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
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
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
PAUL CEZANNE

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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