The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
PAUL CEZANNEWith an apple I will astonish Paris.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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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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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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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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I allow no one to touch me.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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