If I think, everything is lost.
PAUL CEZANNEYou have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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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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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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I want to die painting.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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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.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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If 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.
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