I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
PAUL CEZANNEChatter about art is almost always useless.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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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.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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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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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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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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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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