I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNEI cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
PAUL CEZANNEI wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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 CEZANNEI allow no one to touch me.
PAUL CEZANNEThe most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
PAUL CEZANNEI am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
PAUL CEZANNEWhat is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
PAUL CEZANNEI am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
PAUL CEZANNEI advance all of my canvas at one time.
PAUL CEZANNEI 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 CEZANNEYou must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNEAn art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
PAUL CEZANNEI must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
PAUL CEZANNEI’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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