There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
PAUL CEZANNEYou have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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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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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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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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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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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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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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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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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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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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