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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.

Paul Cezanne

When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNE
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Harmony Nature Parallel
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNE
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
PAUL CEZANNE

Alive Focus Life Paint
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNE
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Blank Canvas Myself Style Time
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNE

Enough Eyes Need Thinking 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
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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

Cylinder Direction Nature Point Prospective Treat
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
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
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
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
PAUL CEZANNE

Brilliant Color Light Shadow Tone
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
PAUL CEZANNE

Gratitude Intelligence Myself
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNE

Illusion Mad Myself Thinking

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