I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
PAUL CEZANNEI owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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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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