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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

I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
PAUL CEZANNE

Animate Color Intense Nature Rich
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 took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNE

Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
PAUL CEZANNE

Alive Focus Life Paint
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
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
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
PAUL CEZANNE

Artist Paint See Unfold
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

Art Era God Preparation Study
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
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Flower God Judgment Myself Object Painting Tree
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Artist Different Goodness Professional
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNE

Enough Eyes Need Thinking 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 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
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
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

Cylinder Direction Nature Point Prospective Treat

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.

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