I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
PAUL CEZANNEIt took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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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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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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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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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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