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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

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
PAUL CEZANNE

Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
PAUL CEZANNE

Alive Focus Life Paint
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
PAUL CEZANNE

Harmony Object Paint Relationship
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Change Day People Soul Thinking
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
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
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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Age Destroy Hard Illusion Myself Realization Sensible Willing
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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Beautiful Formula Memories Nature Ourselves Study
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNE
Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Color Light Representation Reproduction
Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Absract Art Drawing
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
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

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.

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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.

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