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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.

Paul Cezanne

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

Goodness Photograph Studio Willing
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 landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
PAUL CEZANNE

Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking
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
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
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNE
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Beginning Emotion Work
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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
Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
PAUL CEZANNE

Direct Imitation Master Preference Willing Yourself
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNE

Enough Eyes Need Thinking Yourself
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
PAUL CEZANNE

Beautiful Formula Memories Nature Ourselves Study
Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
PAUL CEZANNE

Artist Color Different Draw Form Rich Yourself
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
PAUL CEZANNE

Artist Construction Fall Greatness Himself Limitation Rival

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