I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
PAUL CEZANNEI have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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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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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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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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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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