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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.

Paul Cezanne

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

Change Reflection Time Understand
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
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
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
PAUL CEZANNE

Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
PAUL CEZANNE

Day Observation Revolution
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNE
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
PAUL CEZANNE

Add Link Oneself Past Substitute
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
PAUL CEZANNE

Change Day People Soul Thinking
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
PAUL CEZANNE

Flow Impossible Thinking Time
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
PAUL CEZANNE

Discover Doubt Himself Nature Open See Success Way
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
A puny body weakens the soul.
PAUL CEZANNE
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
PAUL CEZANNE

Eyes Feature Mindset Paint Support
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNE

Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself

I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.

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