My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
PAUL CEZANNEPleasure must be found in study.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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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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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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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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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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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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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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