With an apple I will astonish Paris.
PAUL CEZANNEHere, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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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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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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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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I want to die painting.
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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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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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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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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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