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Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.
Paul Cezanne
Day
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
Paul Cezanne
Eye
Mind
The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.
Paul Cezanne
World
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
Paul Cezanne
Nature
Truth
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
Paul Cezanne
Work
Words
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
Paul Cezanne
Art
Artist
Personality
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
Paul Cezanne
Day
Revolution
Will
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
Paul Cezanne
Past
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
Paul Cezanne
Nature
Painting
Sensations
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
Paul Cezanne
Painting
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
Paul Cezanne
Expression
Public
Temperament
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
Paul Cezanne
Nature
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
Paul Cezanne
Study
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
Paul Cezanne
Light
Shadow
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
Paul Cezanne
Work