I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
PAUL CEZANNEI 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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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