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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.

Paul Cezanne

A puny body weakens the soul.
PAUL CEZANNE
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
PAUL CEZANNE

Mystery Sensation Source Translation Try
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
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
PAUL CEZANNE

Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Harmony Nature Parallel
You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
PAUL CEZANNE

Bury Generosity Ideas Life Oneself Youth
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
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
PAUL CEZANNE

Control Finding Heart Painting
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
PAUL CEZANNE

Age Comfortable Conquer Finding Ourselves Prayer Religion
All the theories mess you up inside.
PAUL CEZANNE

Mess Theory Yourself
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
PAUL CEZANNE

Age Destroy Hard Illusion Myself Realization Sensible Willing
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
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 truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
PAUL CEZANNE

Evidence Nature Oneself Truth
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

Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.

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