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

Paul Cezanne

Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
PAUL CEZANNE

Expression Heart Logic Possible
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
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNE
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
PAUL CEZANNE

Artist Paint See Unfold
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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Flow Impossible Thinking Time
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Art Eyes God Myself
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
PAUL CEZANNE

Advance Canvas Myself Time
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
A puny body weakens the soul.
PAUL CEZANNE
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNE

Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Add Link Oneself Past Substitute
I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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Animate Color Intense Nature Rich
When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
PAUL CEZANNE

Experience Inspirational Paint Wisdom
I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
PAUL CEZANNE

Myself Paint Truth Yourself
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNE

Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Talk Wasted Time
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
PAUL CEZANNE
All the theories mess you up inside.
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Mess Theory Yourself
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
PAUL CEZANNE

Mystery Sensation Source Translation Try
I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
PAUL CEZANNE

Difficult Paint Thinking Yourself
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

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