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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 ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Age Comfortable Conquer Finding Ourselves Prayer Religion
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.
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Discover Myself Nature Representation Reproduction Satisfaction Sun
Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Blank Empty Fine Stand Terrible
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Enough Eyes Need Thinking Yourself
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
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.
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Art Brief Define Myself Nature Soul Word
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Astonishment Myself One Liner
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.
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Art Artist Choice Combination Depend Fiction Painting Technique
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
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
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
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.
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Breathe Color Innocent Moments Myself Photograph Rain World
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
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
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
The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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Different Modesty Oneself Strength Time
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
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.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
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.
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Goodness Photograph Studio Willing
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Control Finding Heart Painting
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
PAUL CEZANNE

Impression Nature Paint Realization Sensation Subject

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