Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
PAUL CEZANNE
Nature 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 CEZANNE
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
PAUL CEZANNE
I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
PAUL CEZANNE
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
PAUL CEZANNE
The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
PAUL CEZANNE
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
PAUL CEZANNE
A puny body weakens the soul.
PAUL CEZANNE
Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
PAUL CEZANNE
Pure drawing is an abstraction.
PAUL CEZANNE
I want to die painting.
PAUL CEZANNE
If I think, everything is lost.
PAUL CEZANNE
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
PAUL CEZANNE
What 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.
PAUL CEZANNE
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
PAUL CEZANNE
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNE