The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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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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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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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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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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