I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
PAUL CEZANNEThe truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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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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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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