Nature is the best instructor.
PAUL CEZANNEMonet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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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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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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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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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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