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

Paul Cezanne

There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Artist Different Goodness Professional
It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
PAUL CEZANNE

Blank Empty Fine Stand Terrible
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
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
Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
PAUL CEZANNE
A puny body weakens the soul.
PAUL CEZANNE
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
PAUL CEZANNE

Age Destroy Hard Illusion Myself Realization Sensible Willing
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
PAUL CEZANNE

Age Comfortable Conquer Finding Ourselves Prayer Religion
I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
PAUL CEZANNE

Animate Color Intense Nature Rich
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
PAUL CEZANNE

Add Link Oneself Past Substitute
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
PAUL CEZANNE

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

Gratitude Intelligence Myself
When 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 CEZANNE

Art Flower God Judgment Myself Object Painting Tree
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
PAUL CEZANNE

Evidence Nature Oneself Truth
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNE
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Harmony Nature Parallel

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