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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

Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Eyes God Myself
A puny body weakens the soul.
PAUL CEZANNE
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
PAUL CEZANNE

Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Beginning Emotion Work
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
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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Light Love Misery Oneself Side
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
PAUL CEZANNE

Direction Nature Perspective Plane Point Proper Treat
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
PAUL CEZANNE

Company Goodness
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
PAUL CEZANNE

Gratitude Intelligence Myself
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
Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Artist Choice Combination Depend Fiction Painting Technique
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Harmony Object Paint Relationship
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
PAUL CEZANNE

Discover Doubt Himself Nature Open See Success Way
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNE

Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Evidence Nature Oneself Truth

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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