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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

I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
PAUL CEZANNE

Discover Myself Nature Representation Reproduction Satisfaction Sun
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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Beautiful Formula Memories Nature Ourselves Study
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time
Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Artist Choice Combination Depend Fiction Painting Technique
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Discover Doubt Himself Nature Open See Success Way
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
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 not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
PAUL CEZANNE

Alive Focus Life Paint
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
Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
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
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNE
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNE
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNE
I allow no one to touch me.
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Allow Myself Touch
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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Color Design Draw Rich Separate

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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