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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

Paul Cezanne

With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
PAUL CEZANNE

Expression Need Painting Public Temperature
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
Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
PAUL CEZANNE
See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
PAUL CEZANNE

Light Love Misery Oneself Side
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
PAUL CEZANNE

Evidence Nature Oneself Truth
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
PAUL CEZANNE

Himself Painting Word Work
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
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
PAUL CEZANNE
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
PAUL CEZANNE
Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
PAUL CEZANNE

Color Light Representation Reproduction
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
PAUL CEZANNE

Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength
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
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
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
The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
PAUL CEZANNE

Myself Understand World
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
PAUL CEZANNE

Alive Focus Life Paint

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

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