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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.

Paul Cezanne

Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Eyes Material Optics Ourselves Thinking
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
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
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
PAUL CEZANNE
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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Bury Generosity Ideas Life Oneself Youth
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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Alone Color Confirm Logic Myself Painting
If I think, everything is lost.
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Lost Myself One Liner Think
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
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 have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
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

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