My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
PAUL CEZANNEThe approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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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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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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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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All the theories mess you up inside.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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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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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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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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