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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

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
PAUL CEZANNE

Day Observation Revolution
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
PAUL CEZANNE

Distant Fertilizer Lazy Life Myself Sound Sun
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
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNE

Achievement Color Form Full Rich
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
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Eyes God Myself
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
Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
PAUL CEZANNE

Emotion Essential Experience Expression Knowledge
A puny body weakens the soul.
PAUL CEZANNE
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
PAUL CEZANNE

Advance Canvas Myself Time
Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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

Cylinder Direction Nature Point Prospective Treat
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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Flow Impossible Thinking Time
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
PAUL CEZANNE
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
PAUL CEZANNE

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.

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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.

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