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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.

Paul Cezanne

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
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
PAUL CEZANNE

Change Day People Soul Thinking
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
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
PAUL CEZANNE

Goodness Photograph Studio Willing
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
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
PAUL CEZANNE

Be Yourself Copy Feeling
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
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
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNE

Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Darkness Light Painting Relation 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
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
PAUL CEZANNE

Artist Paint See Unfold
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
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
Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
PAUL CEZANNE

Disappear Hurry See Yourself
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

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