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There is no model, there is only color.

Paul Cezanne

Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Eyes God Myself
Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
PAUL CEZANNE

Figure Form Himself Learning Nature Painting Simplicity
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
PAUL CEZANNE

Mystery Sensation Source Translation Try
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
PAUL CEZANNE

Control Finding Heart Painting
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
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
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
PAUL CEZANNE

Company Goodness
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
PAUL CEZANNE

Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
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
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNE
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
PAUL CEZANNE

Distant Fertilizer Lazy Life Myself Sound Sun
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
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
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
PAUL CEZANNE

Alive Focus Life Paint
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
PAUL CEZANNE

Appearance Myself Nature Progress Reveal Slow

There is no model, there is only color.

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