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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.

Paul Cezanne

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
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
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
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Day Observation Revolution
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.
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Figure Form Himself Learning Nature Painting Simplicity
Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Art Eyes Material Optics Ourselves Thinking
The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Myself Understand World
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 awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
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
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Beginning Craft End Feeling Objective Principle
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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Expression Need Painting Public Temperature
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

I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.

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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.

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