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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

Paul Cezanne

Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
PAUL CEZANNE

Disappear Hurry See Yourself
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
There is no model, there is only color.
PAUL CEZANNE

Color Model
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
PAUL CEZANNE

Company Goodness
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
PAUL CEZANNE

Himself Painting Word Work
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
PAUL CEZANNE

Invention Method Myself
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
PAUL CEZANNE

Artist Cylinder Form Nature
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNE

Achievement Color Form Full Rich
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
PAUL CEZANNE

Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
PAUL CEZANNE

Goodness Photograph Studio Willing
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
PAUL CEZANNE

Harmony Object Paint Relationship
Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Artist Choice Combination Depend Fiction Painting Technique
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

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