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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.

Paul Cezanne

An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Beginning Craft End Feeling Objective Principle
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
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
Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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Artist Color Different Draw Form Rich Yourself
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
Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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Art Color Design Draw Rich Separate
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
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
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 say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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Art Era God Preparation Study
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
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Eyes Feature Mindset Paint Support
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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Bury Generosity Ideas Life Oneself Youth
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Myself Paint Truth Yourself
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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Age Destroy Hard Illusion Myself Realization Sensible Willing
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Age Comfortable Conquer Finding Ourselves Prayer Religion
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Achievement Color Form Full Rich
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
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
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

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