With an apple I will astonish Paris.
PAUL CEZANNEThe awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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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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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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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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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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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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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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Pleasure must be found in study.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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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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Nature is the best instructor.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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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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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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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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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If I think, everything is lost.
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