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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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
PAUL CEZANNEA work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
PAUL CEZANNENature is the best instructor.
PAUL CEZANNEThe painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
PAUL CEZANNEYou have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
PAUL CEZANNELiterature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
PAUL CEZANNEAll the theories mess you up inside.
PAUL CEZANNEIf isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
PAUL CEZANNEI ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
PAUL CEZANNEI am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
PAUL CEZANNEMy nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
PAUL CEZANNEKnowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
PAUL CEZANNEMonet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
PAUL CEZANNETreat 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 CEZANNEIf 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.
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