You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNEIf I think, everything is lost.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
PAUL CEZANNETell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNEEverything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
PAUL CEZANNEThe truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
PAUL CEZANNELiterature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
PAUL CEZANNEYou must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNEThe awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
PAUL CEZANNEAll the theories mess you up inside.
PAUL CEZANNEI have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
PAUL CEZANNEI could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
PAUL CEZANNEDon’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNEThe most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
PAUL CEZANNEA work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
PAUL CEZANNEEverything 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.
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