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I advance all of my canvas at one time.

Paul Cezanne

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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Brief Define Myself Nature Soul Word
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
PAUL CEZANNE

Light Love Misery Oneself Side
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Eyes God Myself
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
PAUL CEZANNE

Age Comfortable Conquer Finding Ourselves Prayer Religion
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
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
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Change Day People Soul Thinking
Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Absract Art Drawing
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
PAUL CEZANNE

Change Reflection Time Understand
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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Alone Color Confirm Logic Myself Painting
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
I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Evidence Nature Oneself Truth

I advance all of my canvas at one time.

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