Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist. Paul Cezanne More Quotes by Paul Cezanne More Quotes From Paul Cezanne With an apple I will astonish Paris. Paul Cezanne apples paris art The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life. Paul Cezanne laziness sun friendship It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas. Paul Cezanne blank canvas artist One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link. Paul Cezanne artist add past The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings. Paul Cezanne painter painting artist 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 color brain art 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 technique feelings art I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration. Paul Cezanne stronger ego opinion Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know. Paul Cezanne mad artist thinking There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones. Paul Cezanne tone light dark An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all. Paul Cezanne artist feelings art We live in a rainbow of chaos. Paul Cezanne rainbow dream love I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion. Paul Cezanne artist age birthday The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness. Paul Cezanne landscape consciousness thinking 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 satisfied satisfaction sun You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears. Paul Cezanne disappear ifs want The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture...we merge in an iridescent chaos. Paul Cezanne landscape chaos thinking Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions. Paul Cezanne drawing giving mean Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head. Paul Cezanne controlled painting heart Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. Paul Cezanne cones cylinders spheres