Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
PAUL CEZANNEChatter about art is almost always useless.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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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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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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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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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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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 artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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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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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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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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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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