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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

Paul Cezanne

When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNE
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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Alone Color Confirm Logic Myself Painting
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.
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Mystery Sensation Source Translation Try
Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
PAUL CEZANNE

Difficult Paint Thinking Yourself
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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Chaos Human Live Myself Photograph Thinking
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Enough Eyes Need Thinking Yourself
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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Disappear Hurry See Yourself
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNE

Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Brief Define Myself Nature Soul Word
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time
It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
PAUL CEZANNE

Blank Empty Fine Stand Terrible
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Change Day People Soul Thinking
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
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
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
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
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
PAUL CEZANNE

Goodness Photograph Studio Willing
Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
PAUL CEZANNE

Expression Heart Logic Possible

It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

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