The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
PAUL CEZANNEPure drawing is an abstraction.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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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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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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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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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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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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