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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.

Paul Cezanne

Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
PAUL CEZANNE

Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
Here, 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 CEZANNE
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNE

Achievement Color Form Full Rich
Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
PAUL CEZANNE

Difficult Paint Thinking Yourself
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
PAUL CEZANNE

Brilliant Color Light Shadow Tone
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
PAUL CEZANNE

Alone Color Confirm Logic Myself Painting
Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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Expression Heart Logic Possible
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNE

Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
PAUL CEZANNE

Age Destroy Hard Illusion Myself Realization Sensible Willing
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Talk Wasted Time
Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
PAUL CEZANNE

Artist Color Different Draw Form Rich Yourself
The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
PAUL CEZANNE

Myself Understand World
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
PAUL CEZANNE

Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
PAUL CEZANNE

Impression Nature Paint Realization Sensation Subject
Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Eyes Material Optics Ourselves Thinking
See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
PAUL CEZANNE

Light Love Misery Oneself Side

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