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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

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
Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
PAUL CEZANNE

Figure Form Himself Learning Nature Painting Simplicity
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNE

Achievement Color Form Full Rich
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
PAUL CEZANNE

Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
PAUL CEZANNE

Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
PAUL CEZANNE

Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Eyes Material Optics Ourselves Thinking
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
PAUL CEZANNE
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNE

Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
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
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
PAUL CEZANNE

Experience Inspirational Paint Wisdom
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
PAUL CEZANNE

Evidence Nature Oneself Truth
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
PAUL CEZANNE

Alone Color Confirm Logic Myself Painting
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
If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Brief Define Myself Nature Soul Word

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

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