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Paul Cezanne

Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Gratitude Intelligence Myself
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Harmony Object Paint Relationship
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
I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Myself Paint Truth Yourself
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
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.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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Art Brief Define Myself Nature Soul Word
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
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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Experience Inspirational Paint Wisdom
Pleasure must be found in study.
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Finding Happiness Oneself Study
The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Myself Understand World
Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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Disappear Hurry See Yourself
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

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