The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
PAUL CEZANNEEverything 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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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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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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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