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

Paul Cezanne

Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
PAUL CEZANNE

Disappear Hurry See Yourself
Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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Art Artist Choice Combination Depend Fiction Painting Technique
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
PAUL CEZANNE

Change Day People Soul Thinking
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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Direct Imitation Master Preference Willing Yourself
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Add Link Oneself Past Substitute
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
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 day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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Beginning Company Goodness Maturity Myself Opinion Reach Strong
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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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Achievement Color Form Full Rich

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