Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
PAUL CEZANNEThe day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
PAUL CEZANNEYou must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNEUnder this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
PAUL CEZANNEThe landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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 CEZANNEYou must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNEI’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
PAUL CEZANNEThe artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
PAUL CEZANNEChatter about art is almost always useless.
PAUL CEZANNEThe sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
PAUL CEZANNEWith an apple I will astonish Paris.
PAUL CEZANNEI am the primitive of the method I have invented.
PAUL CEZANNEYou have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
PAUL CEZANNEOne does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
PAUL CEZANNEGenius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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