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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

Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
PAUL CEZANNE

Artist Color Different Draw Form Rich Yourself
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Beginning Craft End Feeling Objective Principle
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
Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
PAUL CEZANNE

Breathe Color Innocent Moments Myself Photograph Rain World
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNE
A puny body weakens the soul.
PAUL CEZANNE
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
PAUL CEZANNE

Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
PAUL CEZANNE

Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
I allow no one to touch me.
PAUL CEZANNE

Allow Myself Touch
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
PAUL CEZANNE

Mystery Sensation Source Translation Try
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
You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
PAUL CEZANNE

Bury Generosity Ideas Life Oneself Youth
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
PAUL CEZANNE

Harmony Object Paint Relationship
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
PAUL CEZANNE

Impression Nature Paint Realization Sensation Subject

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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