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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.

Paul Cezanne

Pleasure must be found in study.
PAUL CEZANNE

Finding Happiness Oneself Study
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
PAUL CEZANNE

Control Finding Heart Painting
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
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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Direction Nature Perspective Plane Point Proper Treat
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
PAUL CEZANNE

Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
PAUL CEZANNE

Experience Inspirational Paint Wisdom
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
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Artist Different Goodness Professional
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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Cylinder Direction Nature Point Prospective Treat
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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Figure Form Himself Learning Nature Painting Simplicity
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
PAUL CEZANNE
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNE
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
PAUL CEZANNE

Harmony Object Paint Relationship
The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
PAUL CEZANNE

Chaos Human Live Myself Photograph Thinking
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNE

Illusion Mad Myself Thinking

I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.

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