I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNEThe truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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When I start thinking, all 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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I want to die painting.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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