The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
PAUL CEZANNEI owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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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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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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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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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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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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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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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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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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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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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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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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