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.
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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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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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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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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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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