I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
PAUL CEZANNEThe landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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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 advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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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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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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