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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
 Paul Cezanne

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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
 Paul Cézanne
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
 Paul Cezanne
Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a subject for study of the highest interest and so varied that I think I could be occupied for months without changing my place, simply bending a little more to the right or left.
 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
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
 Paul Cezanne