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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

Paul Cezanne

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

Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
PAUL CEZANNE

Gratitude Intelligence Myself
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’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
PAUL CEZANNE
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
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
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
PAUL CEZANNE

Change Day People Soul Thinking
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNE
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
PAUL CEZANNE

Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNE

Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
PAUL CEZANNE

Myself Paint Truth 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
The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.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
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
Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
PAUL CEZANNE

Disappear Hurry See Yourself

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

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