I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
PAUL CEZANNEIt is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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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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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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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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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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I want to die painting.
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