The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
PAUL CEZANNEThere are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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