I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
PAUL CEZANNEI 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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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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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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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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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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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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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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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