Nature is the best instructor.
PAUL CEZANNEThe sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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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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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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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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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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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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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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