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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

Paul Cezanne

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
PAUL CEZANNE

Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength
Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Color Design Draw Rich Separate
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
PAUL CEZANNE

Color Draw Expression Literature Painting Perception Sensation Style
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
The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.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
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
PAUL CEZANNE

Control Finding Heart Painting
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
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
PAUL CEZANNE

Age Comfortable Conquer Finding Ourselves Prayer Religion
Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
PAUL CEZANNE

Deep Moments Present Spiritual Time
Treat 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 CEZANNE

Direction Nature Perspective Plane Point Proper Treat
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
PAUL CEZANNE

Abstraction Color Drawing Nature Pure
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNE
It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
PAUL CEZANNE

Blank Empty Fine Stand Terrible
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
PAUL CEZANNE

Artist Paint See Unfold
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
PAUL CEZANNE

Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
PAUL CEZANNE

Astonishment Myself One Liner

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

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