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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.

Paul Cezanne

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
Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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Direct Imitation Master Preference Willing Yourself
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Alive Focus Life Paint
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
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
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
PAUL CEZANNE

Be Yourself Copy Feeling
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Abstraction Color Drawing Nature Pure
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Company Goodness
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
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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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
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce

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