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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.

Paul Cezanne

It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
PAUL CEZANNE

Alive Focus Life Paint
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
Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Art Eyes Material Optics Ourselves Thinking
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
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.
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Light Love Misery Oneself Side
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Evidence Nature Oneself Truth
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
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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Goodness Photograph Studio Willing
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Art Flower God Judgment Myself Object Painting Tree
The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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Different Modesty Oneself Strength Time
All the theories mess you up inside.
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Mess Theory Yourself
With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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Expression Need Painting Public Temperature
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Color Draw Expression Literature Painting Perception Sensation Style
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNE

Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting

You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.

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