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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.

Paul Cezanne

Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
PAUL CEZANNE

Direct Imitation Master Preference Willing Yourself
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
PAUL CEZANNE
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
PAUL CEZANNE

Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
PAUL CEZANNE

Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking
It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
PAUL CEZANNE

Blank Empty Fine Stand Terrible
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

Direction Nature Perspective Plane Point Proper Treat
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
PAUL CEZANNE
I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
PAUL CEZANNE

Discover Myself Nature Representation Reproduction Satisfaction Sun
Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
PAUL CEZANNE

Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
All the theories mess you up inside.
PAUL CEZANNE

Mess Theory Yourself
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNE
Everything 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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Figure Form Himself Learning Nature Painting Simplicity
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Era God Preparation Study
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
PAUL CEZANNE

Change Day People Soul Thinking
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
PAUL CEZANNE

Alone Color Confirm Logic Myself Painting
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
PAUL CEZANNE

Day Observation Revolution

Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.

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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.

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