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PAUL CEZANNE ART QUOTES

Paul Cezanne Creative Quotations

"I am the primitive of the method I have invented"  --Paul Cezanne

"With an apple I will astonish Paris."  --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

 "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 

 "We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature."  --Paul Cezanne 

 "There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other."  --Paul Cezanne 

 "The awareness of our own strength makes us modest."  --Paul Cezanne 

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"Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment."  --Paul Cezanne 

 "Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations."  --Paul Cezanne 

 "I've had much work on hand, which is what happens to every man who is somebody."  --Paul Cezanne

"For an impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations."  --Paul Cezanne 

 "I pursue success by work. I despise all living painters but Monet and Renoir, and I want to succeed."  --Paul Cezanne

"The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution." --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 

"Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience."  --Paul Cezanne

"All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work."  --Paul Cezanne 

 "Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors."  --Paul Cezanne

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest."  --Paul Cezanne

"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 
 

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