For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
PAUL CEZANNEThe approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I want to die painting.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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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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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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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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