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

Paul Cezanne

I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
PAUL CEZANNE

Animate Color Intense Nature Rich
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 allow no one to touch me.
PAUL CEZANNE

Allow Myself Touch
See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
PAUL CEZANNE

Light Love Misery Oneself Side
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
PAUL CEZANNE

Harmony Object Paint Relationship
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNE
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Eyes God Myself
Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
PAUL CEZANNE

Disappear Hurry See Yourself
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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Alone Color Confirm Logic Myself Painting
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
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
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
PAUL CEZANNE

Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
PAUL CEZANNE

Advance Canvas Myself Time
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNE
I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
PAUL CEZANNE

Myself Paint Truth Yourself
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Talk Wasted Time

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