We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
PAUL CEZANNEI cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
PAUL CEZANNEYou must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNEI ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
PAUL CEZANNEThe painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
PAUL CEZANNEI allow no one to touch me.
PAUL CEZANNEOne does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
PAUL CEZANNEI could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
PAUL CEZANNETime and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
PAUL CEZANNEIf isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
PAUL CEZANNEThe world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
PAUL CEZANNEI want to die painting.
PAUL CEZANNEEverything 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 CEZANNEI am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
PAUL CEZANNEChatter about art is almost always useless.
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