With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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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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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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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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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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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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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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