The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
PAUL CEZANNEThe artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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I want to die painting.
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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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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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