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Painting, 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.

Paul Cezanne

Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
PAUL CEZANNE

Change Reflection Time Understand
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
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
PAUL CEZANNE

Harmony Object Paint Relationship
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNE

Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNE
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
PAUL CEZANNE

Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
PAUL CEZANNE

Beginning Company Goodness Maturity Myself Opinion Reach Strong
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Beginning Craft End Feeling Objective Principle
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
PAUL CEZANNE

Company Goodness
Pure drawing is an abstraction.
PAUL CEZANNE

Absract Art Drawing
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
PAUL CEZANNE

Brilliant Color Light Shadow Tone
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
PAUL CEZANNE

Alive Focus Life Paint
I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
PAUL CEZANNE

Myself Paint Truth Yourself
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
Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
PAUL CEZANNE

Emotion Essential Experience Expression Knowledge
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
PAUL CEZANNE

Artist Paint See Unfold

Painting, 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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