It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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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 am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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