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.
PAUL CEZANNEThe world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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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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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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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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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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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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