Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
PAUL CEZANNEEverything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
PAUL CEZANNEChatter about art is almost always useless.
PAUL CEZANNEI ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
PAUL CEZANNEI have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
PAUL CEZANNEI am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
PAUL CEZANNEWhen 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 CEZANNEIf I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
PAUL CEZANNEThere are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
PAUL CEZANNEIt’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
PAUL CEZANNEIt is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
PAUL CEZANNEIf I think, everything is lost.
PAUL CEZANNERight now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
PAUL CEZANNEIt took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNEArt is a harmony parallel with nature.
PAUL CEZANNESometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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