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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

Paul Cezanne

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNE

Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNE
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
PAUL CEZANNE

Astonishment Myself One Liner
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNE

Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
PAUL CEZANNE

Disappear Hurry See Yourself
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
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
PAUL CEZANNE

Harmony Object Paint Relationship
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNE
I want to die painting.
PAUL CEZANNE

Death One Liner Paint
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
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Eyes God Myself
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Talk Wasted Time
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

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

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