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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

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
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
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
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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Appearance Myself Nature Progress Reveal Slow
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
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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Alone Color Confirm Logic Myself Painting
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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Impression Nature Paint Realization Sensation Subject
I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Myself Paint Truth Yourself
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
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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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
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.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking

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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