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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.

Paul Cezanne

Pleasure must be found in study.
PAUL CEZANNE

Finding Happiness Oneself Study
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
PAUL CEZANNE

Brilliant Color Light Shadow Tone
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Beginning Emotion Work
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNE

Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
Nature is the best instructor.
PAUL CEZANNE

Best Instruction Nature One Liner
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNE

Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
PAUL CEZANNE
With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
PAUL CEZANNE

Expression Need Painting Public Temperature
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
PAUL CEZANNE

Change Day People Soul Thinking
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
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
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
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
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
PAUL CEZANNE

Appearance Hurry See Yourself

The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.

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