With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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 more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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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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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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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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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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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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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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