The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
PAUL CEZANNEThe awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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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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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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