It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
PAUL CEZANNEThe most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
PAUL CEZANNEThe artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
PAUL CEZANNEI am the primitive of the method I have invented.
PAUL CEZANNEThe painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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 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 CEZANNENature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
PAUL CEZANNEEverything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
PAUL CEZANNEWhen the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNEGenius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
PAUL CEZANNEThere are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
PAUL CEZANNEAll the theories mess you up inside.
PAUL CEZANNEThe painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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 CEZANNEWhat I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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