Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
PAUL CEZANNEThere is no model, there is only color.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Nature is the best instructor.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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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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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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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 am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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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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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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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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