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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.

Paul Cezanne

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

Brilliant Color Light Shadow Tone
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
PAUL CEZANNE

Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
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
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
PAUL CEZANNE

Gratitude Intelligence Myself
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
PAUL CEZANNE

Flow Impossible Thinking Time
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
PAUL CEZANNE

Change Reflection Time Understand
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
PAUL CEZANNE

Ability Emotion Experience Genius
Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
PAUL CEZANNE

Emotion Essential Experience Expression Knowledge
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
PAUL CEZANNE

Company Goodness
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
PAUL CEZANNE

Himself Painting Word Work
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
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
PAUL CEZANNE
Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
PAUL CEZANNE

Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
Painting, 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 CEZANNE

Art Artist Choice Combination Depend Fiction Painting Technique
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
PAUL CEZANNE

Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength
When I start thinking, all is lost.
PAUL CEZANNE

Lost One Liner Start Thinking

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