Paul Cézanne

Treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, all in perspective.

letter to Emile Bernard, 1904; Emile Bernard Paul Cézanne (1925)

We live in a rainbow of Chaos.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

[ Remark to Ambroise Vollard :] Monet is only an eye, but my God what an eye!

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

The day was not far off when one solitary, original carrot [depicted in a painting] might be pregnant with revolution!

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