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.
PAUL CEZANNEMy nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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I want to die painting.
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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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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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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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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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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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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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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