I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
PAUL CEZANNEDoubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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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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A puny body weakens the soul.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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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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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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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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