Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
PAUL CEZANNEI owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
PAUL CEZANNEMonet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
PAUL CEZANNEI’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
PAUL CEZANNENature is the best instructor.
PAUL CEZANNEThe approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
PAUL CEZANNETime and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
PAUL CEZANNETell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNEYou must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNEI am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
PAUL CEZANNEWhen I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
PAUL CEZANNEI could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
PAUL CEZANNEThere is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
PAUL CEZANNEWith a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
PAUL CEZANNEI am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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