Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
PAUL CEZANNEThe world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.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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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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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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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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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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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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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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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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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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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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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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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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