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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.

Paul Cezanne

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
PAUL CEZANNE

Bury Generosity Ideas Life Oneself Youth
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Flower God Judgment Myself Object Painting Tree
Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
PAUL CEZANNE

Difficult Paint Thinking Yourself
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
PAUL CEZANNE

Advance Canvas Myself Time
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
PAUL CEZANNE

Color Draw Expression Literature Painting Perception Sensation Style
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
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
PAUL CEZANNE

Eyes Feature Mindset Paint Support
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
PAUL CEZANNE
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNE
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
PAUL CEZANNE

Invention Method Myself
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
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
PAUL CEZANNE

Ability Emotion Experience Genius
I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
PAUL CEZANNE

Discover Myself Nature Representation Reproduction Satisfaction Sun
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
PAUL CEZANNE
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Harmony Nature Parallel
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
PAUL CEZANNE

Artist Cylinder Form Nature

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