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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.

Paul Cezanne

Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Eyes God Myself
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 no model, there is only color.
PAUL CEZANNE

Color Model
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Abstraction Color Drawing Nature Pure
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
PAUL CEZANNE

Appearance Myself Nature Progress Reveal Slow
The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
PAUL CEZANNE

Chaos Human Live Myself Photograph Thinking
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
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
PAUL CEZANNE
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNE
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
PAUL CEZANNE

Eyes Feature Mindset Paint Support
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
PAUL CEZANNE

Discover Doubt Himself Nature Open See Success Way
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Talk Wasted Time
Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
PAUL CEZANNE
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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Cylinder Direction Nature Point Prospective Treat

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