Chatter about art is almost always useless.
PAUL CEZANNEI have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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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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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 is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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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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Pleasure must be found in study.
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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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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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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