The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
PAUL CEZANNEThe sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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I want to die painting.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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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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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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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There is no model, there is only color.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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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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If I think, everything is lost.
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