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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

Paul Cezanne

You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
PAUL CEZANNE

Appearance Hurry See Yourself
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
PAUL CEZANNE

Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
PAUL CEZANNE

Discover Myself Nature Representation Reproduction Satisfaction Sun
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
PAUL CEZANNE

Beautiful Formula Memories Nature Ourselves Study
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
If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Brief Define Myself Nature Soul Word
With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
PAUL CEZANNE

Expression Need Painting Public Temperature
Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
PAUL CEZANNE

Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
PAUL CEZANNE

Artist Cylinder Form Nature
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
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
PAUL CEZANNE

Goodness Photograph Studio Willing
Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
PAUL CEZANNE

Artist Color Different Draw Form Rich Yourself
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNE

Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time

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