The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
PAUL CEZANNEThe truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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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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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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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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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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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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