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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

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
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
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
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’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
PAUL CEZANNE

Gratitude Intelligence Myself
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
PAUL CEZANNE

Astonishment Myself One Liner
Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
PAUL CEZANNE

Artist Construction Fall Greatness Himself Limitation Rival
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
PAUL CEZANNE

Age Comfortable Conquer Finding Ourselves Prayer Religion
I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
Pure drawing is an abstraction.
PAUL CEZANNE

Absract Art Drawing
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
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
PAUL CEZANNE

Add Link Oneself Past Substitute
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNE

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

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