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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.

Paul Cezanne

I allow no one to touch me.
PAUL CEZANNE

Allow Myself Touch
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
PAUL CEZANNE

Eyes Feature Mindset Paint Support
There is no model, there is only color.
PAUL CEZANNE

Color Model
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
PAUL CEZANNE

Change Day People Soul Thinking
The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
PAUL CEZANNE

Chaos Human Live Myself Photograph Thinking
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
PAUL CEZANNE

Appearance Myself Nature Progress Reveal Slow
Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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Disappear Hurry See Yourself
The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
PAUL CEZANNE

Different Modesty Oneself Strength Time
You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
PAUL CEZANNE

Bury Generosity Ideas Life Oneself Youth
Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
PAUL CEZANNE

Direct Imitation Master Preference Willing Yourself
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
PAUL CEZANNE

Invention Method Myself
All the theories mess you up inside.
PAUL CEZANNE

Mess Theory Yourself
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
PAUL CEZANNE

Alone Color Confirm Logic Myself Painting
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
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Beginning Emotion Work
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
PAUL CEZANNE

Company Goodness

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