The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
PAUL CEZANNEThere is no model, there is only color.
PAUL CEZANNEThe sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
PAUL CEZANNEPure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
PAUL CEZANNESometimes 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 CEZANNEI’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
PAUL CEZANNEI have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
PAUL CEZANNEIf isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
PAUL CEZANNEGenius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
PAUL CEZANNELight is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
PAUL CEZANNEThere are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
PAUL CEZANNEArt is a harmony parallel with nature.
PAUL CEZANNEI cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
PAUL CEZANNEIt took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNEThe most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
PAUL CEZANNEWhen I start thinking, all is lost.
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