The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
PAUL CEZANNEI am the primitive of the method I have invented.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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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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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of 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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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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