All the theories mess you up inside.
PAUL CEZANNEThe landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Nature is the best instructor.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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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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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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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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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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