Nature is the best instructor.
PAUL CEZANNEI cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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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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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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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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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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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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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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