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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

Paul Cezanne

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
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
Pleasure must be found in study.
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Finding Happiness Oneself Study
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Company Goodness
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Alive Focus Life Paint
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
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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Animate Color Intense Nature Rich
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Evidence Nature Oneself Truth
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
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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
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
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
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
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Achievement Color Form Full Rich
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
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
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
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
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.
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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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Expression Heart Logic Possible
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNE

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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