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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

Paul Cezanne

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
PAUL CEZANNE

Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
PAUL CEZANNE

Artist Cylinder Form Nature
I allow no one to touch me.
PAUL CEZANNE

Allow Myself Touch
A puny body weakens the soul.
PAUL CEZANNE
Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
PAUL CEZANNE

Artist Color Different Draw Form Rich Yourself
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
Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
PAUL CEZANNE

Expression Heart Logic Possible
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
Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Eyes Material Optics Ourselves Thinking
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
PAUL CEZANNE

Alive Focus Life Paint
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
PAUL CEZANNE

Astonishment Myself One Liner
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNE
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
PAUL CEZANNE
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
PAUL CEZANNE

Conscious Landscape Myself Thinking
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

Chaos Human Live Myself Photograph Thinking
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
PAUL CEZANNE

Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation

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