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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

Paul Cezanne

A puny body weakens the soul.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
PAUL CEZANNE

Different Modesty Oneself Strength Time
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Beginning Emotion Work
Nature is the best instructor.
PAUL CEZANNE

Best Instruction Nature One Liner
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
PAUL CEZANNE

Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
PAUL CEZANNE

Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
If I think, everything is lost.
PAUL CEZANNE

Lost Myself One Liner Think
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
I want to die painting.
PAUL CEZANNE

Death One Liner Paint
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Flower God Judgment Myself Object Painting Tree
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
PAUL CEZANNE

Abstraction Color Drawing Nature Pure
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
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNE

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

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