I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
PAUL CEZANNEAll the theories mess you up inside.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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 awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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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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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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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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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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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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