The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
PAUL CEZANNEI am the primitive of the method I have invented.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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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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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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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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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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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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