I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
PAUL CEZANNEArt is a harmony parallel with nature.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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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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Nature is the best instructor.
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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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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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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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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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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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