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

Paul Cezanne

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
PAUL CEZANNE
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
PAUL CEZANNE

Age Destroy Hard Illusion Myself Realization Sensible Willing
Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
PAUL CEZANNE

Artist Construction Fall Greatness Himself Limitation Rival
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNE

Achievement Color Form Full Rich
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
PAUL CEZANNE

Artist Paint See Unfold
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
Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
PAUL CEZANNE

Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
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’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNE
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
Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Eyes Material Optics Ourselves Thinking
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
PAUL CEZANNE

Distant Fertilizer Lazy Life Myself Sound Sun
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
Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
PAUL CEZANNE

Breathe Color Innocent Moments Myself Photograph Rain World

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

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