If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
PAUL CEZANNEThe truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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I allow no one to touch me.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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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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I want to die painting.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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