I 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.
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I 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 CEZANNEPure drawing is an abstraction.
PAUL CEZANNEYou say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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 CEZANNEPeople think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
PAUL CEZANNEI have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
PAUL CEZANNEWe live in a rainbow of chaos.
PAUL CEZANNEThe painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
PAUL CEZANNEOptics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
PAUL CEZANNEIt took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNEA work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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 CEZANNEShadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
PAUL CEZANNEThere is no model, there is only color.
PAUL CEZANNEI ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
PAUL CEZANNEI’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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