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“Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.”
— Paul Cezanne
“The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.”
— Paul Cezanne
“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”
— Paul Cezanne
“We live in a rainbow of chaos.”
— Paul Cezanne
“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
“For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.”
— Paul Cezanne
“Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.”
— Paul Cezanne
“Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.”
— Paul Cezanne
“If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.”
— Paul Cezanne
“There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.”
— Paul Cezanne
“I allow no one to touch me.”
— Paul Cezanne
“The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.”
— Paul Cezanne
“A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.”
— Paul Cezanne
“Art is a harmony parallel with nature.”
— Paul Cezanne
“I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.”
— Paul Cezanne
“An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.”
— Paul Cezanne
“Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.”
— Paul Cezanne
“The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.”
— Paul Cezanne
“The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.”
— Paul Cezanne
“With an apple I will astonish Paris.”
— 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
“Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.”
— Paul Cezanne
“It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.”
— Paul Cezanne
“Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.”
— Paul Cezanne
“Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.”
— Paul Cezanne
“The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.”
— Paul Cezanne
“Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.”
— Paul Cezanne
“I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.”
— Paul Cezanne
“I am the primitive of the method I have invented.”
— Paul Cezanne
“I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.”
— Paul Cezanne
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