I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
PAUL CEZANNEKeep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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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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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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