The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
PAUL CEZANNEIt’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
PAUL CEZANNEIt took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNEHere, 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 CEZANNEPure drawing is an abstraction.
PAUL CEZANNEDoubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
PAUL CEZANNEI advance all of my canvas at one time.
PAUL CEZANNEI allow no one to touch me.
PAUL CEZANNETell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNEI am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
PAUL CEZANNESee 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 CEZANNEPainting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
PAUL CEZANNEPleasure must be found in study.
PAUL CEZANNEMonet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
PAUL CEZANNEWith an apple I will astonish Paris.
PAUL CEZANNEIf I think, everything is lost.
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