To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
PAUL CEZANNEThe landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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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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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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