The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
PAUL CEZANNEI ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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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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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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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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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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