I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
PAUL CEZANNEI must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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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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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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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 want to die painting.
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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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.
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