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 CEZANNEIf I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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