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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

Paul Cezanne

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
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
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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Chaos Human Live Myself Photograph Thinking
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
Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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Emotion Essential Experience Expression Knowledge
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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Art Artist Different Goodness Professional
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.
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Cylinder Direction Nature Point Prospective Treat
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Company Goodness
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.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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Brilliant Color Light Shadow Tone
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
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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