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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

Paul Cezanne

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
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Talk Wasted Time
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNE

Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
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
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
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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Distant Fertilizer Lazy Life Myself Sound Sun
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
PAUL CEZANNE
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
PAUL CEZANNE
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNE

Achievement Color Form Full Rich
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Art Eyes God Myself
If I think, everything is lost.
PAUL CEZANNE

Lost Myself One Liner Think
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
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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.
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Light Love Misery Oneself Side

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

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