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.
PAUL CEZANNEI must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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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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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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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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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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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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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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