You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNEI am the primitive of the method I have invented.
PAUL CEZANNEThe truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
PAUL CEZANNEPleasure must be found in study.
PAUL CEZANNEDon’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNEThere are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
PAUL CEZANNEWhoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
PAUL CEZANNEI must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
PAUL CEZANNEWhen the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNEOne does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
PAUL CEZANNEI have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
PAUL CEZANNETell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNEI owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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.
PAUL CEZANNEWith an apple I will astonish Paris.
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