Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
PAUL CEZANNEThere are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
PAUL CEZANNEThe painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
PAUL CEZANNEI ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
PAUL CEZANNELiterature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
PAUL CEZANNEEverything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
PAUL CEZANNEKnowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
PAUL CEZANNEFor an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
PAUL CEZANNEI owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
PAUL CEZANNEAll pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
PAUL CEZANNEIt took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNEWith an apple I will astonish Paris.
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 CEZANNEThe sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
PAUL CEZANNEI allow no one to touch me.
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