I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
PAUL CEZANNEPleasure must be found in study.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I allow no one to touch me.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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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 is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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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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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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