I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
PAUL CEZANNEThe truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I allow no one to touch me.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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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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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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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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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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