Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNETell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNEA puny body weakens the soul.
PAUL CEZANNEIf I think, everything is lost.
PAUL CEZANNEWhen the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNEI ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
PAUL CEZANNEDesign and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
PAUL CEZANNEThe sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
PAUL CEZANNEShadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
PAUL CEZANNEWe must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
PAUL CEZANNEThe landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
PAUL CEZANNEYou must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNEI have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
PAUL CEZANNEWe live in a rainbow of chaos.
PAUL CEZANNEChatter about art is almost always useless.
PAUL CEZANNEI owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
PAUL CEZANNEWhen the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNE