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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.

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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Era God Preparation Study
All the theories mess you up inside.
PAUL CEZANNE

Mess Theory Yourself
Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
PAUL CEZANNE

Breathe Color Innocent Moments Myself Photograph Rain World
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
PAUL CEZANNE
The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
PAUL CEZANNE

Myself Understand World
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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Direction Nature Perspective Plane Point Proper Treat
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Harmony Object Paint Relationship
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
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
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 advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
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
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
PAUL CEZANNE

Discover Doubt Himself Nature Open See Success Way
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNE

Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
PAUL CEZANNE

Be Yourself Copy Feeling
The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
PAUL CEZANNE

Different Modesty Oneself Strength Time

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