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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

Paul Cezanne

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
PAUL CEZANNE

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

Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
PAUL CEZANNE

Different Modesty Oneself Strength Time
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
PAUL CEZANNE

Appearance Myself Nature Progress Reveal Slow
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
PAUL CEZANNE

Advance Canvas Myself Time
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNE

Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
PAUL CEZANNE

Appearance Hurry See Yourself
Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
PAUL CEZANNE

Artist Construction Fall Greatness Himself Limitation Rival
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNE
I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
PAUL CEZANNE
Pleasure must be found in study.
PAUL CEZANNE

Finding Happiness Oneself Study
If 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 CEZANNE

Art Brief Define Myself Nature Soul Word
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
PAUL CEZANNE

Gratitude Intelligence Myself
If I think, everything is lost.
PAUL CEZANNE

Lost Myself One Liner Think
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
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
PAUL CEZANNE

Goodness Photograph Studio Willing

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

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