A puny body weakens the soul.
PAUL CEZANNEThe most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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I want to die painting.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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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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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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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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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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