Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
PAUL CEZANNETell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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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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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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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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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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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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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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