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 CEZANNEI ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
PAUL CEZANNEPure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
PAUL CEZANNEThe landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
PAUL CEZANNEAn art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNEOne does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
PAUL CEZANNEI allow no one to touch me.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
PAUL CEZANNEFor an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
PAUL CEZANNEI’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
PAUL CEZANNEKnowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
PAUL CEZANNEOptics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
PAUL CEZANNEArt first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
PAUL CEZANNEYou must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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 CEZANNEIt’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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