I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
PAUL CEZANNEThe most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I want to die painting.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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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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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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.
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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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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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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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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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