The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
PAUL CEZANNEArt is a harmony parallel with nature.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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