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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.

Paul Cezanne

You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNE

Enough Eyes Need Thinking Yourself
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
PAUL CEZANNE
Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Color Design Draw Rich Separate
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
PAUL CEZANNE

Beautiful Formula Memories Nature Ourselves Study
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
PAUL CEZANNE

Day Observation Revolution
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
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNE
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
PAUL CEZANNE

Appearance Myself Nature Progress Reveal Slow
Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
PAUL CEZANNE

Disappear Hurry See Yourself
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNE
It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
PAUL CEZANNE

Blank Empty Fine Stand Terrible
Nature is the best instructor.
PAUL CEZANNE

Best Instruction Nature One Liner
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
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
PAUL CEZANNE

Alive Focus Life Paint
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

Different Modesty Oneself Strength Time
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Artist Different Goodness Professional

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