With an apple I will astonish Paris.
PAUL CEZANNEIt’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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I want to die painting.
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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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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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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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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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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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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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