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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

It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
PAUL CEZANNE

Flow Impossible Thinking Time
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
PAUL CEZANNE

Goodness Photograph Studio Willing
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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Light Love Misery Oneself Side
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNE

Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
PAUL CEZANNE

Ability Emotion Experience Genius
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
PAUL CEZANNE

Be Yourself Copy Feeling
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
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
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
PAUL CEZANNE

Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
PAUL CEZANNE

Himself Painting Word Work
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Eyes God Myself
With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
PAUL CEZANNE

Expression Need Painting Public Temperature
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
PAUL CEZANNE

Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
PAUL CEZANNE

Add Link Oneself Past Substitute
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
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
PAUL CEZANNE

Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation

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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