The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
PAUL CEZANNEI owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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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 am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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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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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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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.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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