I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
PAUL CEZANNEYou have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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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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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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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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I allow no one to touch me.
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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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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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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