To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
PAUL CEZANNEOne does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
PAUL CEZANNEArt is a harmony parallel with nature.
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 CEZANNEI’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
PAUL CEZANNELong live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
PAUL CEZANNEHere, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
PAUL CEZANNESometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
PAUL CEZANNEPure drawing is an abstraction.
PAUL CEZANNEThere is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
PAUL CEZANNETreat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
PAUL CEZANNERight now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
PAUL CEZANNEMichelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
PAUL CEZANNEWith an apple I will astonish Paris.
PAUL CEZANNETime and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
PAUL CEZANNEI cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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