We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
PAUL CEZANNEPure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
PAUL CEZANNEThe day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
PAUL CEZANNEAll pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
PAUL CEZANNEMonet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
PAUL CEZANNEI could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
PAUL CEZANNEThe approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
PAUL CEZANNEYou must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNEI advance all of my canvas at one time.
PAUL CEZANNEChatter about art is almost always useless.
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 CEZANNETo paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
PAUL CEZANNEI ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
PAUL CEZANNEThe world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
PAUL CEZANNELong live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
PAUL CEZANNENature 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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