What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
PAUL CEZANNEA work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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I want to die painting.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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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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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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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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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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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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